https://koji.fedoraproject.org is signed with an unknown certificate (extras64.linux.duke.edu)

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Sun Oct 14 22:32:40 UTC 2007


Till Maas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for two months there has been no progress on a security ticket:
> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/88
>
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org spits out an strange certificate instead of one 
> signed by an well known CA, e.g. Equifax. Can maybe someone who reads here 
> and did not notice this Security Bug fix this? In case there is no money 
> available for this, then please use at least a certificate from cacerct.org 
> instead of this imho nearly complete useless certificate. Also it is not very 
> wise to educate users (Fedora maintainers) to accept bad certificates in 
> Fedora's Infrastructure, so that in case there is a Man-in-the-middle attack, 
> e.g. on an conference with free wifi, the regarding maintainers will be 
> fooled.
This isn't actually causing any practical problems so I've been ignoring 
it.  As far as man in the middle attack... someone will think they've 
submitted a build but haven't?  either way I'll submit a purchase 
request for the cert now.

    -Mike




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