Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anatol Belski [mailto:weltl...@outlook.de]
> Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 4:52 PM
> To: Niklas Keller <m...@kelunik.com>
> Cc: Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net>; Jakub Zelenka <bu...@php.net>; PHP
> Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
> Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Distrust SHA-1 Certificates
> 
> Morning, guys,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Niklas Keller [mailto:m...@kelunik.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2017 4:39 PM
> > To: Anatol Belski <weltl...@outlook.de>
> > Cc: Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net>; Jakub Zelenka <bu...@php.net>; PHP
> > Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
> > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Distrust SHA-1 Certificates
> >
> >     Ok, so you strive to create a completely new RFC with a solution
> > based on today's situation. I think you still don't see my point. Say
> > there's insecure_allow_sha1_signature, which is a stream context. Then
> >
> >
> >     - in 7.0 and 7.1
> >       - if absent, insecure_allow_sha1_signature = true
> >       - if present, the given value taken
> >       - impact for 7.2 migration - if explicit
> > insecure_allow_sha1_signature = false is in the code, no impact
> >     - in 7.2
> >       - if absent, insecure_allow_sha1_signature = false
> >       - if present, depending on the decision either the exact value is
> > taken or ignored
> >       - future impact - none, the option can be even silently removed
> >     - in 7.3
> >       - removed and disabled completely
> >
> >     No see same if insecure_allow_sha1_signature is an INI
> >
> >     - in 7.0 and 7.1
> >       - if not set, insecure_allow_sha1_signature = On
> >       - if set, the given value is taken
> >       - impact for 7.2 migration - depending on decision, either it's
> > deprecated warning or disabled by default
> >     - in 7.2
> >       - if not set, insecure_allow_sha1_signature = Off
> >       - if set, the given value is taken, warning is issued
> >     - in 7.3
> >       - removed and disabled completely
> >
> >     Both options do same, but in different manner. Both have advantages
> > and downsides, but one option only is both necessary and sufficient to
> > achieve the goal.
> >
> >
> >
> > You plan assumes we'll disallow sha1 / md5 completely in the future,
> > dunno whether that'll be the case. I'd prefer that.
> >
> Nome, that's not mine, it's was your intention as I've remembered, might be
> wrong. Anyway, what I wanted is only to show the redundancy having multiple
> ways to do same.
> 
> Anyway, now that Jakub also responded with an approach as well, maybe it's
> time to get an RFC get the thing done? It could have the two suggestions
> brought till now as an "exclusive or" choice and the disablement plan. The one
> that won would be followed up. An implementation were great to have before.
> 
> Both suggestions, either the separate context options for md5 and sha1, or
> security levels, do same job and only differ in the way it's done. The 
> downside of
> security levels is, that fe the suggested security level 2 will disable both, 
> while
> user might want to disable only sha1, that's where the separate options win on
> flexibility. Whereby having a higher security level should automatically 
> ensure a
> certain weak functionality is disabled at once, which has some use as well. 
> IMO,
> the INI option is a no go - the argument that user can get everything done at
> once breaks encapsulation, as not every stream in the app might require it.
> 
> The plan about the default disablement by version brought by Jakub sounds
> plausible, as for me. IMHO the complete disablement should not be a part of 
> this
> RFC.
> 
> I would suggest, it's time to get on RFC and bust this issue. It would be 
> great, if
> all the interested parties could cooperate on this.
> 
Any news on the topic?

Regards

Anatol

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