dnssec-trigger + GNOME + NetworkManager integration

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Fri Jul 3 14:28:36 UTC 2015


And dnssec-validator.cx for a Firefox/chrome plugin that you can see in action against fedoraproject.org that already deploys this 

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> On Jul 3, 2015, at 10:43, Petr Spacek <pspacek at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2.7.2015 17:56, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 16:38 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> this type of attitude?
>>> 
>>> everybody who reads IT news over the past years about CA's issued 
>>> certificates even for Google knows that a CA signed certificate does 
>>> not 
>>> prove anything - the real problem is wehn this happens for Google 
>>> somebody takes notice and the press writes about it
>>> 
>>> if the same happens for your domain nobody will recognize it
>> 
>> The situation is going to be getting a lot better in the near future,
>> though. We're getting to the point where we can start enforcing
>> Google's certificate transparency: if your certificate isn't on the
>> public audit list, we can simply reject it. That allows individual web
>> sites to get an immediate heads-up whenever any fraudulent certificate
>> is issued for their site. (And researchers will be looking after the
>> most important sites, of course.) That's not going to fix TLS in
>> itself, because most sites probably don't care, but if the site does
>> care, it will be impossible to issue a browser-trusted certificate for
>> the site without that site knowing. (At least, that's my understanding
>> of the technology; I haven't researched it thoroughly.)
>> 
>> You're right that OCSP is worthless. GNOME applications don't currently
>> perform any certificate revocation; I'm not willing to implement OCSP
>> unless Firefox is willing to enforce it, and they aren't. We should
>> implement OneCRL, which solves the revocation problem for intermediate
>> certificates, but there doesn't seem to be any reasonable solution for
>> individual sites yet. OCSP must-staple seems promising.
>> 
>> Of course, we can't have any of these nice features in GNOME unless
>> somebody wants to pay for their implementation. (If so, get in touch
>> please.)
> 
> For the record, and all this can be solved by DNSSEC + DANE. See RFC 6698.
> 
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