On 02/12/15 15:38, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >> > It’s quite >> > useful in hotspot/public wifi environments where making policy decisions >> > based on hostname is more than sufficient, and explicit user configuration >> > of proxy settings is a non-starter. > That is an attack in my book and public hotspots that do MITM are also > a problem that we need to solve. It is partially solved with WISPr > XML, I think. Though everything in this space is awful because it > breaks everything by default while a system thinks it is online. >
There's a WG in the process of being chartered about captive portals [1], not sure exactly what it'll end up producing, but that's a place to go if interested in this specific topic. Cheers, S. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-capport/ _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
