Re: Proposal

2014-04-09 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/9/2014 8:25 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Pawel Biernacki writes: I understand that this is voluntary role and you have another (real life) responsibilities that’s why I'd like to propose an idea of (at least partially) paid position of Security Officer, because we all need quick and eff

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl

2014-04-09 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/9/2014 9:21 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote: Advisory claims 10.0 only to be affected. Patches to branch 9 are not of importance on the same level? Zoran 9 (and before) were only impacted if you loaded the newer OpenSSL from ports. A fair number of people did, however

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl

2014-04-09 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/9/2014 9:47 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: "Karl Denninger" On 4/9/2014 9:21 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote: Advisory claims 10.0 only to be affected. Patches to branch 9 are not of importance on the same level? 9 (and before) were only impacted if

Re: [Cryptography] trojans in the firmware

2015-02-19 Thread Karl Denninger
hese attacks are going to be loaded into your machine through a _*running*_ modern BSD-style system? I suspect the answer is "few" and a false sense of security is worse than none at all. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: DRAM Rowhammer exploits

2015-03-09 Thread Karl Denninger
privilege escalation is not your only problem; corruption of data headed to the disk, specifically with filesystems like ZFS, in many ways can be worse because that can result in corruption that the system CANNOT detect. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /T

Re: Forums.FreeBSD.org - SSL Issue?

2015-05-14 Thread Karl Denninger
e still using that in the wild. Not a huge number, but a material number. On several relatively large systems I monitor the "in the wild" user count for Windows XP is still around 4% of all users to the sites. Same problem with RC4. I'd love to lock that out too, but see above --

Re: WPA2 bugz - One Man's Quick & Dirty Response

2017-10-16 Thread Karl Denninger
ell, that's exactly the situation you're now in. Incidentally, has anyone yet figured out if this vector works on a network configured for machine certificates instead of a PSK?  I'm not certain from what I've looked at yet, and that is bothering me a LOT for what should be ob

Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs

2017-12-06 Thread Karl Denninger
i-virus products will, by default, do exactly this sort of intentional interception on IMAP server traffic aimed at port 993 in an attempt to detect trojans and viruses that are attached to email messages. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/

Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs

2017-12-11 Thread Karl Denninger
for #2 on an inherent basis and this debate is thus about trying to use a tool that allegedly does three things when we really only need one of them. Maybe it's time to move toward something that can for source distribution to the public (e.g. Git) instead of trying to abuse something that

Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs

2017-12-11 Thread Karl Denninger
users. It is NOT forced.  You can use SVN now over http OR https. >> This was just to give an example of why one would prefer to use HTTP >> over HTTPS, and how as highlighted by Karl Denninger a system which does >> too much may actually be harmful. > I disagree with this. The imp

Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs

2017-12-12 Thread Karl Denninger
the same as the bits on the FreeBSD project's machines!* Solve the problem at the correct location -- either fix svn to sign and verify updates or dump it for something that can and use that existing mechanism (e.g. git) -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs

2017-12-12 Thread Karl Denninger
On 12/12/2017 08:28, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message , Karl > Denninger > writes: > >> Now the question becomes this -- is the proper means to handle this via >> TLS (using that root cert) OR should the *transport* be fixed so that >> https doesn

Re: Important note for future FreeBSD base system OpenSSH update

2021-09-12 Thread Karl Denninger
of FreeBSD on some device and use that."  Can we avoid that being the answer, as it became with the browser issues? -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature