But then again, these days, self-signed certs have no advantage over CA-signed certs.
Viele Grüsse, -Marcel Waldvogel (kurz&bündig) > Am 04.05.2016 um 16:05 schrieb Dave Cridland <[email protected]>: > > > >> On 3 May 2016 at 19:10, Tomasz Sterna <[email protected]> wrote: >> W dniu 03.05.2016, wto o godzinie 09∶40 -0700, użytkownik >> [email protected] napisał: >> > I suspect you wouldn't want s2s to use a self signed cert, so >> > allowing two level of verification (c2s and s2s) sounds complex. You >> > fix one thing in software and you break something else. >> >> So, why would you allow self-signed on C2S? >> >> Why do you want to use encryption in the first place? >> So, no one is able to read the conversation, right? >> But self-signed cert does not give you this... Just a false illusion >> that you are protected from evesdropping. >> But self-signed does not protect you from man-in-the-middle attack, so >> basically still anyone able to tap the wire your transmission is going >> through is able to read it, with just slightly more effort. > > I used to agree with you, but I've changed my mind over the years - it turns > out that because it forces an attacker to switch from passive eavesdropping > to active MITM, this is a blocker for the majority of attackers, especially > opportunistic or mass-surveillance actors. > > So a self-signed cert is better than no cert at all (even if you want > something independently verifiable ideally). > >> >> > I noticed the online documentation doesn't completely match the xml, >> > but there are enough comments in the xml that I could get close to >> > setting it up. It is just the certs that are confusing. >> >> Yeah. The real and up to date source of documentation are the comments >> in the configuration files. >> >> >> -- >> /o__ >> (_<^' Practice is the best of all instructors. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> JDev mailing list >> Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev >> Unsubscribe: [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > JDev mailing list > Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > _______________________________________________
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