On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Michael Rogers <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> Cons: Requires the user have a public IP. The FreedomBox >>> distributor becomes a "single point of attack" as they have a >>> central list of which domain belongs to which user. The >>> distributor is also in a position which allows them to issue new >>> certs and MITM attack users without their knowledge. >> >> These cons are all solvable. The box's installation wizard can guide >> the user through choosing a PageKite subdomain, entering payment >> details, generating an SSL cert and submitting it to StartSSL. The >> user doesn't need a static IP. The hardware distributor doesn't need >> to know which PageKite subdomain the user chooses, and doesn't need to >> generate or sign certs.
Oops, please don't take my last reply too seriously. But you're confusing scenarios there, what you just described is scenario Two or Four. :-) To make this e-mail not a complete waste: random useful thing: badger.com provide an API for registering domains. Others may as well (gandi.net?). This means if someone writes the software, then buying a domain could be handled entirely within the UI of the box itself. -- Bjarni R. Einarsson Founder, lead developer of PageKite. Make localhost servers visible to the world: https://pagekite.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
