That's a crime against security!
Say what?
That’s a hyperbole. The thing is that when you don’t verify the peer’s
certificate, then you’re vulnerable to MitM attack with fake certificate
injection. The whole SSL/TLS is totally useless in that moment. It’s
more or less like putting the door’s key under the carpet right in front
of the door.
Allowing to bypass/ignore certificate verification is ok-ish in some
situations, but only when the user do it consciously, using explicit
option such as --no-check-certificate, not silently as the default
option.
Jakub
On 2018-05-25 14:19, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 6:50 PM, Jakub Jirutka <[email protected]>
wrote:
Internal TLS code (FEATURE_WGET_HTTPS) does not implement validation
of the server's certificate. It is documented in the code, but not
even mentioned in the --help message, so users typically don't know
about this behaviour.
That's a crime against security!
Say what?
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