Re: SSL/TLS everywhere fail

> On 5 Dec 2015, at 2:08 am, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net> wrote:
> 
>> But SSL/TLS is just about the worst encryption you can bring to
>> that fight, because it is *so* trivial and routine to MiTM that you
>> can find the list-price for the necessary equipment on Google.
> 
> This is where we diverge, I suspect. None of that equipment is going
> to work against PayPal or Google or even Tor Project's website when a
> user uses a modern browser as those sites are TLS with cert pinning.

Last I checked, browsers don't enforce pins when a MiTM CA is installed locally, and they don't intend to in the foreseeable future.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

Received on Saturday, 5 December 2015 00:41:54 UTC