On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 06:43:51PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2025, at 18:27, Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> >> On 23/07/2025 13:43, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>> Hi everyone
> >>> 
> >>> I intend to create the release/8.0 branch in the next 1-2 weeks
> >>> after that i intend to make teh 8.0 release in the following 1-2 weeks
> >>> 
> >>> If theres something you want in it make sure its pushed before the branch
> >>> is made.
> >> 
> >> Would it be sensible to enable tls verify by default with 8.0?
> >> Or would that have to go through a longer "deprecation" period?
> >> 
> >> We've just added proper verification support to openssl, schannel and other
> >> backends already had it.
> >> It's just default-disabled for some reason.
> >> IMO it'd make sense to turn it on by default, it has surprised me and other
> >> people in the past that FFmpeg does not verify TLS certificates in any way
> >> by default.
> > 
> > Is there some disadvantage ?
> > 
> > if not i would suggest to enable it
> 
> As long as there is a command line option to disable checking, it should
> be a good default.

> There are many sites out there with badly configured
> certificates, or self-signed ones, which would no longer work, otherwise.

the fix for this is to check crt.sh

example: https://crt.sh/?q=ffmpeg.org

and if there are or where correct certificates, reject the self signed one
otherwise allow self signed by default with a warning

thx

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