Re: why not WPAD?

Le Mer 15 janvier 2014 22:24, Eliot Lear a écrit :
> Peter,
>
> Without addressing your question specifically, who do you trust?  If the
> information comes off DHCP do you trust the local network
> administrator?  What if your device is mobile?  What if it's in
> Starbucks?  If we're talking about DNS-based WPAD, perhaps a configured
> domain that one trusts is more interesting, especially if you can play
> proximity games...

The fact is, you should not have to trust "here is the proxy" hint or not.
A correct security model is "do you trust the proxy or not", regardless of
how you discovered it

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

Received on Thursday, 16 January 2014 09:54:51 UTC