On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 15:19:22 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:13:10PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > Furthermore, we will change the people.debian.org web-service such that
> > only HTTPS connections will be supported (unencrypted requests will be
> > redirected).
> 
> […] If http
> connections are still allowed, this doesn't provide any protection from a
> MITM attack for most users; and the contents of people.d.o are not generally
> security sensitive.

HSTS protects mostly from MITM (except for first connection), but I'm
not sure if DSA is planning to add it.

Thanks,
Guillem


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