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Re: No port 443 (https) available at "security.debian.org"-repository

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On 26/07/2017 6:20 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> https provides no protection against targetted attacks by government agents. 
> The CA cartel model consists of 400+ CAs, many of them outright controlled
> by governments, most of the rest doing what they're told (no, warrants are
> are a story for nice kids).  Clients in general trust _any_ CA, which means
> you're only as secure as the worst CA.  Ie, https protects you against Joe
> Script Kiddie but not against a capable opponent.
>

Except there are new-ish ways to limit the scope from 400+ CAs to just
the one you use.
c.f.
/Certification Authority Authorization/ (/CAA/) /DNS/ Resource
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844

... if APT wishes to support this.

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Re: No port 443 (https) available at "security.debian.org"-repository Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> - 2017-07-25 23:00 +0200
  Re: No port 443 (https) available at "security.debian.org"-repository Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> - 2017-07-25 23:00 +0200
  Re: No port 443 (https) available at "security.debian.org"-repository Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2017-07-26 00:30 +0200
    Re: No port 443 (https) available at "security.debian.org"-repository Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2017-07-26 01:20 +0200
    Re: No port 443 (https) available at "security.debian.org"-repository James Bromberger <james@rcpt.to> - 2017-07-26 01:30 +0200
      Re: No port 443 (https) available at "security.debian.org"-repository Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> - 2017-08-04 14:10 +0200

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