Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] ideas for improvements to development and use of the ruleset

2014-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 22:39 -0800, Yan Zhu wrote: > We've gotten this suggestion a couple times before. Seth Schoen tells me > that the HTTPS Finder rules are often buggy or incomplete, so it's > better if humans look at them first and submit them to us (rather than > have HTTPS Finder automatical

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] ideas for improvements to development and use of the ruleset

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Warren
On 2014-03-04 22:39, Yan Zhu wrote: (There's a good argument that ruleset security should be equivalent to extension security, since an attacker can submit a ruleset update that rewrites the extension update URL to a malicious one!) Perhaps it would be wise to have the extension refuse to re-wr

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] ideas for improvements to development and use of the ruleset

2014-03-05 Thread Yan Zhu
On 03/05/2014 01:13 AM, Dave Warren wrote: > Perhaps it would be wise to have the extension refuse to re-write any > URL involved with the update mechanism (or at least require any rule > that does to be signed using the offline key), along with the use of > certificate pinning to validate the SS