El Dimecres, 11 de març de 2015, a les 12:31:55, ChALkeR va escriure:
> I was told that it is ok to send this to a public ML.
> 
> As it is now, OCS providers.xml file (
> http://download.kde.org/ocs/providers.xml ) is served via http, which
> breaks the https chain and allows a MitM attack replacing the actual
> provider location url with malicious provider url. Or downgrading the
> protocol to http and inserting payloads in actual content from kde-*.org on
> the fly.
> 
> Fixing it would require introducing an https server that serves the
> providers.xml file (download.kde.org does not serve anything through
> https), Ben Cooksley suggests copying that file to autoconfig.kde.org.
> 
> After that, all *.knsrc files should get the ProvidersUrl changed to the
> new location, and the old location could be removed after a couple of
> years. Another way of fixing that would be to add yet another (temporary?)
> hack to knewstuff that replaces one specific url with a new https one.
> 
> On a side note, http://edu.kde.org/ should be replaced with
> https://edu.kde.org/ in some places (including the knewstuff itself).
> 
> Comments?

Using https so people downloads can hot be hijacked sounds like a good thing 
:)

Cheers,
  Albert

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