Integrity protection of fetches

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Fri Aug 6 07:16:39 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:32:36PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Till Maas wrote:

> > Yes ssh is secure if used properly. To get the proper known_hosts entry,
> > one has to download https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ssh_known_hosts btw.
> >
> 
> We also use SSHFP records for those of you that want to enable
> VerifyHostKeyDNS yes in their ~/.ssh/config files.  Not all of our hosts
> have it but many of our 'user' based external hosts do (pkgs,
> fedorapeople, fedorahosted, etc)

Afaik the SSHFP records are not protected against tampering by an MITM
attacker.

Regards
Till
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