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Re: [TLS] The risk of misconfiguration

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Wed, 07 May 2014 17:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] The risk of misconfiguration
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Nico Williams wrote:
> 
> One can always get anon ciphersuites by just taking a peer's cert with
> no validation.  There's no way to prove to them that you did validate
> their cert.  Of course, that's a rather expensive way to get anon
> ciphersuites.

Yes, but it's riskier for a MitM to hope that a certificate isn't being
checked.  When they see "DH_anon" they know they can't be caught in the
act.

Mike

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