Re: Certificate geekery

2023-12-07 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Thanks. > If that's a thing you want to do on your system, you can. IMHO, it's not > something that we particularly need to promote, nor would I find it > desirable operationally. If my NTP server changes their CA provider, then I > won't be able to talk to them any more until I take manual actio

Re: Certificate geekery

2023-12-04 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 2023-12-03 03:22, Hal Murray via devel wrote: I'm working on devel-TODO-NTS. (mostly deleting things) Currently, if a bad guy hacks or arm-twists a certificate authority, they can sign a certificate that the bad guy can use for a MITM attack. Yes, that's how the CA ecosystem works. That is