On 03/28/2017 08:37 AM, Thanh Ha wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Ed Warnicke <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Anil,
> 
>     Thats nice... but at the end of the day, here's the net-net... a
>     large subset of the world's first experience trying to do ODL
>     development is going to be that we are inexplicably broken in a
>     cryptic way.  I strongly recommend we get a cert that is supported
>     by *any* Oracle JDK 1.8, and wait for Oracle JDK 1.8 to be
>     deprecated for use for ODL development (typically something that
>     happens after 1.8 itself has EOLed) *before* using a Let's Encrypt Cert.
> 
>     Initial exposure matters tremendously, and a first experience of
>     "It's broken" is not what we want.
> 
>     Ed
> 
> 
> FWIW I don't think using expired versions of Java is good practice
> either. Oracle releases regular critical security patches [1] for a
> reason. According to [0] JDK8 Update 77 was expired on April 19, 2016.
> Users of Oracle's JDK should have received warnings that a new version
> is available and to update.
> 
> As someone who used Mac and Windows in the past, I can understand it's
> annoying to receive those update popups and the temptation is to ignore
> it but as developers working on next generation network technology I
> don't think it's unreasonable that we also follow good security
> practices and keep our tools up to date.
> 
> Regards,
> Thanh
> 
> [0] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u77-relnotes-2944725.html
> [1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html

To add to this, while we _can_ switch back to the COMODO cert for Nexus
it's only good until the middle of December and we will _not_ be
purchasing new certs now that we have Let's Encrypt capabilities
configured in our Puppet management.

-Andy-

-- 
Andrew J Grimberg
Lead, IT Release Engineering
The Linux Foundation

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