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Re: [websec] HSTS: Infinite max-age to address NTP spoofing attack?

Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg> Sat, 08 November 2014 00:14 UTC

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From: Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 18:13:37 -0600
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Subject: Re: [websec] HSTS: Infinite max-age to address NTP spoofing attack?
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On 7 November 2014 13:28, Xiaoyin Liu <xiaoyin.l@outlook.com> wrote:
> For instance, if Twitter wants to gracefully switch to HTTP. It needs to
> send max-age=0 for twenty years in order to ensure that no one is locked
> out. But planning ahead twenty years is impossible. So for Twitter switching
> from twenty years to infinity doesn't add more risks.

With something concrete, Paypal just jumped to 2 years:
https://twitter.com/equalsJeffH/status/530840852243832833 Maybe Jeff
can weigh in on what it took to get to that confidence level and
whether he/they would rather have 'infinite'.

-tom

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