Aw: Re: Proposal: implement a MITM report addon

2011-07-03 Thread Ralph Holz (TUM)
Hi, OK, the "request for student" is out. I'll keep you posted on progress. Zack, as for the hosting of server infrastructures etc. - I can set that up quite fast if need be. If all you need is a small VM where you can run a quick IP lookup service, let me know, I think I can help here, too. Ma

Re: Proposal: implement a MITM report addon

2011-06-28 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2011-06-28 7:45 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: On 2011-06-28 4:00 AM, Kai Engert wrote: Hi Ralph, if you have resources to work on this or to coordinate this, please go ahead. I haven't yet. If I should, I would contact you to coordinate. Regarding traceroute, you could look at the existing World

Re: Proposal: implement a MITM report addon

2011-06-28 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2011-06-28 4:00 AM, Kai Engert wrote: Hi Ralph, if you have resources to work on this or to coordinate this, please go ahead. I haven't yet. If I should, I would contact you to coordinate. Regarding traceroute, you could look at the existing WorldIP Add-On, which claims to support it, and po

Re: Proposal: implement a MITM report addon

2011-06-28 Thread Kai Engert
Hi Ralph, if you have resources to work on this or to coordinate this, please go ahead. I haven't yet. If I should, I would contact you to coordinate. Regarding traceroute, you could look at the existing WorldIP Add-On, which claims to support it, and potentially copy that code, under the as

Re: Proposal: implement a MITM report addon

2011-06-19 Thread Ralph Holz (TUM)
Hi Kai, I like the idea. It won't help the average user, but it could turn out to be a useful tool to do some research on what governments and ISPs are up to around the world. Just 100 users would already help, and the benefit as opposed to a stand-alone tool is that they do not need to be too

Proposal: implement a MITM report addon

2011-06-17 Thread Kai Engert
I would like to propose that someone could implement an addon for Mozilla applications with the following functionality: - it comes with a list of several hundred known major services, including https and email servers. - if the user gets a certificate error on one of the major sites, we ch