• jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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      9 days ago

      What part are you confused about, and are you a developer?

      Edit: why was I downvoted for asking this?

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        9 days ago

        I’m a developer and would appreciate you going into more specifics about which certificates you suggest pinning.

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          I’m saying that if you’re a developer of software that communicates between two nodes across the internet, you shouldn’t rely on X.509 because the common root stores have historically been filled with compromised CAs, which would let someone with that CA decrypt and view the messages you send with TLS.

          You should mint your own certs and pin their fingerprints so that your application will only send messages if the fingerprint of the cert on the other end matches your trusted cert.

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            9 days ago

            And your software stops functioning after X years due to this.

            Don’t do this, this is a bad idea.

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              9 days ago

              Yeah, fuck the users. We can just slap “100% secure” on the box and who cares if some woman is raped and murdered because we decided not to follow best security practices, right? /s