Once upon a time, Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> said: > On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 16:27, Leon Fauster via devel > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > whats the benefit of this "self-signed TLS certificate" (as it does > > not provide any "security")? Is this stub for something later ... ? > > It's a good question. It provides encryption (so client A can provide > the file to client B without client C being aware what's being sent)
Without identification though, it doesn't do that, because there's no way for client B to know it is really talking to client A - it could be talking to client C with a man-in-the-middle attack and a different self-signed cert pretending to be client A. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
