Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal forced HTTPS backdoor in Kazakhstan

2019-07-28 Thread Thomas Townsend
Yaroslav If there is no local chapter willing and able to take action, then presumably it falls to WMF central to do so, as they have in the USA and Turkey The Turnip On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 12:41, Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > > I do not think Kazakhstan has a chapter. In the past, some Kazakh >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal forced HTTPS backdoor in Kazakhstan

2019-07-28 Thread John Erling Blad
Seems like something happen early Friday morning.[1] [1] https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan/live On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 2:43 PM John Erling Blad wrote: > You are right. “Firefox and Chrome disable pin validation for pinned hosts > whose validated certificate chain terminates at a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal forced HTTPS backdoor in Kazakhstan

2019-07-28 Thread John Erling Blad
You are right. “Firefox and Chrome disable pin validation for pinned hosts whose validated certificate chain terminates at a user-defined trust anchor (rather than a built-in trust anchor). This means that for users who imported custom root certificates all pinning violations are ignored.” [1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal forced HTTPS backdoor in Kazakhstan

2019-07-28 Thread Chico Venancio
FYI, it seems Wikimedia is not being intercepted at the moment. https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan Of course, that may change. It may also be relevant that Wikimedia uses HSTS, and that will make it difficult for users to access the sites with intercepted certificates if they have accessed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal forced HTTPS backdoor in Kazakhstan

2019-07-28 Thread Alex Monk
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe browsers always ignored HPKP rules when presented with a cert signed by a CA that is locally installed rather than default. On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, 12:58 John Erling Blad, wrote: > The Kazakhstan MITM could be stopped by HTTP Public Key Pinning [1], but >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal forced HTTPS backdoor in Kazakhstan

2019-07-28 Thread John Erling Blad
The Kazakhstan MITM could be stopped by HTTP Public Key Pinning [1], but Chrome seems to have dropped support for HPKP[2]? Dropping HPKP made the MITM attack possible, by forcing the users to install the root certificate, as many of the sites listed has been on the HPKP list. With HPKP in place