Re: Cert penning, Certs and related

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On Fri, Oct 14, 2016, at 08:42 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
>
> Anyways, there's a higher level question here - you're arguing
> for pinning to Digicert rather than a custom CA.  That seems good
> enough, but I think we need a recovery mechanism in case Digicert
> explodes.
> 
> So I'd propose pinning to a 3 set of CAs:
> 
>  - Digicert
>  - Some other well-regarded CA vendor
>  - A Fedora-infra custom CA (doesn't have to be deployed, just a backup plan)

Any further thoughts here?

> And as for a specific implementation mechanism, we'd have just
> those CAs in /etc/pki/tls/certs/fedora-infra.crt or so, and that file
> would be in the fedora-repos package.  The argument for this again
> is that librepo and ostree already have all of the code for this, and so does curl etc.
> 
> Doing the hashes of the certs like Firefox does is certainly possible,
> but it requires custom logic in the HTTP layer, and there's no
> standard configuration file formats for the data, etc.
> 
> > Also in the same file chom*/firefox set a list of sites to assume ssl,
> > which would also be nice to hard code. 
> 
> Yeah, we could follow up with this adding Fedora sites to the browser
> lists.  Chrome's version seems saner to me.
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