On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 10:10:06AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > Warning: It is not secure. > > > > It is true that the certificate is not verified, but since the patches > > are destined for a public mailing list, this does not represent a > > large problem. > > What he means is that the password is cleartext ;) > (I think) The way I read and understand it, the issues arises if a MITM-attack takes place. If the client doesn't verify the certificate, an attacker can easily get the username and password. So unless someone creates a separate gmail-account for submitting patches, one should really trust the connection (ie not a public wlan), or verify the certificate before transmitting the password. -- Kind regards, Fredrik Skolmli -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
