From: Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik@frsk•net>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian•org>
Cc: "Tom Preston-Werner" <tom@github•com>,
"Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina•net>,
git@vger•kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add instructions on how to send patches to the mailing list with Gmail
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:01:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081102150100.GF13242@frsk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081102091006.GA4066@artemis>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-02 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-01 7:28 [PATCH] add instructions on how to send patches to the mailing list with Gmail Tom Preston-Werner
2008-11-01 10:00 ` Santi Béjar
2008-11-01 20:40 ` Tom Preston-Werner
2008-11-02 9:10 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-02 15:01 ` Fredrik Skolmli [this message]
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