Bug#765512: general: distrust old crypto algos and protocols perdefault

2014-10-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: general Severity: important Tags: security Hi. Not sure if there is already some concentrated effort, but I think there should be one, i.e.: --- To disable crypto algorithms and protocols per default, which are known to be no longer secure, across Debian. And ideally, to default to

Bug#765512: general: distrust old crypto algos and protocols perdefault

2014-10-15 Thread Joey Hess
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: For git it's e.g. quite clear that it's use of SHA1 *is* security relevant. I've talked about this with the git developers before, and while they seemed to have some ideas for how to handle a conversion to a different hash, they're not keen on doing it until

Bug#765512: general: distrust old crypto algos and protocols perdefault

2014-10-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 15:18 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I've talked about this with the git developers before, and while they seemed to have some ideas for how to handle a conversion to a different hash, they're not keen on doing it until forced by SHA1 being more broken than it is now. Well,...

Bug#765512: general: distrust old crypto algos and protocols perdefault

2014-10-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 20:25 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: There are a number of mechanisms for proposing and tracking distro-wide changes, such as release goals and DEPs in some cases. But this is not what the general bug is for. Please choose something and then kindly close this bug. Well

Bug#765512: general: distrust old crypto algos and protocols perdefault

2014-10-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christoph Anton Mitterer: Not sure if there is already some concentrated effort, but I think there should be one, i.e.: Fedora is currently working on this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy However, it is an ongoing effort to make applications adhere to the system

Bug#765512: general: distrust old crypto algos and protocols perdefault

2014-10-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Joey Hess writes (Bug#765512: general: distrust old crypto algos and protocols perdefault): Instead, it makes sense to adapt workflows that do not trust git hashes, which mostly means making signed tags and commits, and checking the signatures. This is something Debian could improve in many