On 2015-12-11, Constantine A. Murenin <muren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 December 2015 at 02:58, Thijs van Dijk <schnab...@inurbanus.nl> wrote:
>> On 11 December 2015 at 05:51, Andy Bradford <amb-open...@bradfords.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If one wants privacy on a website then more is required than just HTTPS.
>>>
>>
>> Right. *I* just want a reasonable (256-bit) guarantee that the signify keys
>> on my screen are the ones the OpenBSD authors intended me to see.
>>
>> I currently just assume they are correct because it'd be enormously complex
>> to spoof the entire OpenBSD distribution, but I souldn't have to rely on
>> "security through effort involved".
>>
>> Remember the guy who tried to securely download PuTTY? He couldn't
>> <https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-safely-is-nearly-impossible/>
>
> And I couldn't access his web-site from an OpenBSD box:
>
> % lynx -dump 
> https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-safely-is-nearly-impossible/
>
> Looking up noncombatant.org
> Making HTTPS connection to noncombatant.org
> SSL callback:unable to get local issuer certificate, preverify_ok=0, 
> ssl_okay=0
> Retrying connection without TLS.
> Looking up noncombatant.org
> Making HTTPS connection to noncombatant.org
> Alert!: Unable to make secure connection to remote host.
>
> lynx: Can't access startfile
> https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-safely-is-nearly-impossible/
> %
>
> C.
>
>

Works in -current - update /etc/ssl/cert.pem.

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