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diff --git a/doc/bugs/ssl_certificates_not_checked_with_openid.mdwn b/doc/bugs/ssl_certificates_not_checked_with_openid.mdwn index cb4c706f0..e3bd56cfd 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/ssl_certificates_not_checked_with_openid.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/ssl_certificates_not_checked_with_openid.mdwn @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ For now, I want to try and resolve the issues with net\_ssl\_test, and run more > ikiwiki) performing any sanity checking of the openid server. All the > security authentication goes on between your web browser and the openid > server. This may involve ssl, or not. +> +>> Note that I'm not an openid expert, and the above may need to be taken +>> with a grain of salt. I also can make no general statements about openid +>> being secure. ;-) --[[Joey]] > > For example, my openid is "http://joey.kitenet.net/". If I log in with > this openid, ikiwiki connects to that http url to determine what openid @@ -34,3 +38,15 @@ For now, I want to try and resolve the issues with net\_ssl\_test, and run more >> for use by ikiwiki and the rest is simple. >> -- Brian May + +>>> I guess that the place to add SSL cert checking would be in either +>>> [[cpan LWPx::ParanoidAgent]] or [[cpan Net::OpenID::Consumer]]. Adding +>>> it to ikiwiki itself, which is just a user of those libraries, doesn't +>>> seem right. +>>> +>>> It's not particularly clear to me how a SSL cert can usefully be +>>> checked at this level, where there is no way to do anything but +>>> succeed, or fail; and where the extent of the check that can be done is +>>> that the SSL cert is issued by a trusted party and matches the domain name +>>> of the site being connected to. I also don't personally think that SSL +>>> certs are the right fix for DNS poisoning issues. --[[Joey]] |