[liberationtech] Question EFF CA Let's Encrypt

2014-11-19 Thread Richard Brooks
Just looked at this: https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology/ The EFF's new CA to make things cheap and easy for installing certs. I like the goal. What I do not get from the description is how they really verify that I legitimately own the site. If I should manage to reroute some traffic

Re: [liberationtech] Question EFF CA Let's Encrypt

2014-11-19 Thread Andrew Lewis
Maybe it requires DNSSEC? But if you can hijack the DNS request between wherever their servers are coming from, then there are much larger issues at play that you need to address. -Andrew On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Just looked at this:

Re: [liberationtech] Tor2web support for HTTPS on .onion

2014-11-19 Thread carlo von lynX
Scusa, Giovanni... On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:38:41AM +0100, Giovanni Pellerano wrote: As Facebook has recently opened its own onion site [3], we’ve been coordinating this release with Alec Muffett from Facebook in order to block access to Facebook by means of the Tor2web proxy. Because

Re: [liberationtech] Tor2web support for HTTPS on .onion

2014-11-19 Thread carlo von lynX
Sorry for answering my own question, but I hope it's interesting. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 05:14:48PM +0100, carlo von lynX wrote: It is non-obvious to me how accessing FB over T2W would be hurting users. If tor2web hands the TLS negotiation through from the web browser to the Facebook backend,

[liberationtech] Stanford: Animal-Welfare Activism via Virtual Reality

2014-11-19 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Samantha Neuber sneu...@stanford.edu David Kay dka...@stanford.edu Interested in virtual reality or animal welfare? Stop by White Plaza between 10 am and 3 pm this Thursday, November 20th to experience an innovative new virtual reality experience: I, Chicken. Using VR equipment,

Re: [liberationtech] Question EFF CA Let's Encrypt

2014-11-19 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hopefully you've seen the developing description of the protocol here: https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec/blob/master/draft-barnes-acme.md That sounds like it will soon make its way into IETF for a broader discussion. I don't see an explicit

Re: [liberationtech] Question EFF CA Let's Encrypt

2014-11-19 Thread Richard Brooks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My question boils down to: DNS (not DNSSEC) is unauthenticated, and a number of spoofing, poisoning attacks have been shown. One of the goals of the certs is to authenticate the other end of the communications, but I get the impression that this

Re: [liberationtech] Question EFF CA Let's Encrypt

2014-11-19 Thread Tom Ritter
On 19 November 2014 09:13, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Just looked at this: https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology/ The EFF's new CA to make things cheap and easy for installing certs. I like the goal. What I do not get from the description is how they really verify

Re: [liberationtech] Question EFF CA Let's Encrypt

2014-11-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Just looked at this: https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology/ The EFF's new CA to make things cheap and easy for installing certs. I like the goal. What I do not get from the description is how they really

Re: [liberationtech] Question EFF CA Let's Encrypt

2014-11-19 Thread Al Billings
You realize this is the same thing that the entire CA system currently uses and the purpose of the project is not to “fix” the CA system, right? This aspect isn’t any weaker than what people already do (if you’ve ever bought an SSL cert). They aren’t trying to address any DNS issues and making

[liberationtech] Fwd: Question EFF CA Let's Encrypt

2014-11-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Just looked at this: https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology/ The EFF's new CA to make things cheap and easy for installing certs. I like the goal. What I do not get from the description is how they really

[liberationtech] Fwd: [Funlist] Thursday 11/20: People's Hearing and Rally at SF City Hall

2014-11-19 Thread Morgan Weiland
See below for details about a rally tomorrow in SF for network neutrality, supported in part by EFF. -- Forwarded message -- From: April Glaser ap...@eff.org Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:14 PM Subject: [Funlist] Thursday 11/20: People's Hearing and Rally at SF City Hall To: