On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:59 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > The second is site key security (ensuring the NSA never gets your private
> > keys).
>
>
> Who theoretically has access to the private keys (and/or the signing key)
> right now?
>
>
People who have root at Wikimedia, which is Wikimedia's operations team and
a few of the developers.


>  The third is perfect forward security with rapid key rotation.
> >
>
> Does rapid key rotation in any way make a MITM attack less detectable?
> Presumably the NSA would have no problem getting a fraudulent certificate
> signed by DigiCert.
>

SSL Observatory would likely pick that up if it was done in any large
scale. It's less detectable when done in a targeted way, but if that's the
case, the person being targeted is already pretty screwed and we wouldn't
likely be the site targeted.

- Ryan
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