Am 01.09.2015 um 04:39 schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> The Crypto++ Website, Wiki, and Source Control cut-over happened
> without much fanfare.
>
> Crypto++ now resides in its own virtual machine, disgorged from shared
> hosting environments. The VM provides the WikiMedia software, so its
> hosting the Wiki too.
>
> Source control is now provided by GitHub, and that cut-over occurred
> back in June/July 2015. The links on the Home page have been updated.
>
> There's a CAcert (https://www.cacert.org/) issued certificate on the
> website, and the browser mixed-content issues have been resolved. Its
> hit-or-miss whether you will get browser warnings for CAcert warez.
> Firefox is OK, but Safari complains.
The CACert Root-CA cert isn't in Firefox. If I visit the site with HTPPS
I get a security warning. I've now installed their Class 1 certificate
and cryptopp.com should now work, but getting a security warning for a
crypto page is at least *scary*.

May I further "criticize" that the HTTPS version of the wiki causes a
mixed content warning although it only loads from cryptopp.com and
www.cryptopp.com?

May I further question the web server's cipher suite preference? It
prefers TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA  over
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 it looks like it's configured like
something HIGH:MEDIUM:@STRENGTH
Personally I'd prefer
"EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+AES:+EECDH+aRSA+AES+SHA1" which enforces
ECDHE and RSA and prefers GCM over CBC+SHA2 over CBC+SHA1.

And to enhance trust we may also want to deploy DNSSEC / DANE (TLSA) and
HSTS?

BR

JPM
> The site's key fingerprints are:
>
>     * SHA1: 77:61:4A:23:81:93:26:5A:34:2E:1E:BC:8A:C8:38:A9:85:A4:FD:90
>     * SHA256:
> A8:BC:CA:3F:BF:73:4A:80:18:5B:96:80:75:9B:30:AA:F4:A9:91:CB:8F:D6:AE:E0:13:28:30:CF:20:2A:ED:3C
>
> If needed/desired you an install the CAcert Class 1 Root Signing
> Certificate from https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3. The
> fingerprints of interest are:
>
>     * SHA1 Fingerprint:
> 13:5C:EC:36:F4:9C:B8:E9:3B:1A:B2:70:CD:80:88:46:76:CE:8F:33
>     * MD5 Fingerprint: A6:1B:37:5E:39:0D:9C:36:54:EE:BD:20:31:46:1F:6B
>
> Don't get your feathers too ruffled over the CAcert. The web security
> model has bigger problems, so a little known CA is one of the least of
> our worries. The bigger problems include "interception is a valid use
> case", where user phishing is embraced; "Organizational Validated (OV)
> certificates", where organizations like Google or CNNIC mint
> certificates for web properties they don't own or control (and they
> did away with the third party auditor; and the audit trail never
> existed); and "Host Public Key Pinning with Overrides (RFC 7469)",
> where an attacker can break a known good pinset (and the reporting is
> suppressed, too).
>
>
> We are going to attempt to practice key-continuity for the site. That
> means the only time you should suspect a problem is when the public
> key changes. If the public key remains the same (and in the absence of
> a announced key compromise), you can assume everything is OK. Browsers
> are brain dead and and don't have minimal intelligence (they could
> have had it, but the HPKP Overrides destroyed the security property).
>
>
> Jeff
>
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