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Diffstat (limited to 'networking/wget.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | networking/wget.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/networking/wget.c b/networking/wget.c index 90eedaf7a..252f94dc6 100644 --- a/networking/wget.c +++ b/networking/wget.c @@ -58,6 +58,39 @@ //config: On NOMMU machines, ssl_helper applet should be available //config: in the $PATH for this to work. Make sure to select that applet. //config: +//config: Note: currently, TLS code only makes TLS I/O work, it +//config: does *not* check that the peer is who it claims to be, etc. +//config: IOW: it uses peer-supplied public keys to establish encryption +//config: and signing keys, then encrypts and signs outgoing data and +//config: decrypts incoming data. +//config: It does not check signature hashes on the incoming data: +//config: this means that attackers manipulating TCP packets can +//config: send altered data and we unknowingly receive garbage. +//config: (This check might be relatively easy to add). +//config: It does not check public key's certificate: +//config: this means that the peer may be an attacker impersonating +//config: the server we think we are talking to. +//config: +//config: If you think this is unacceptable, consider this. As more and more +//config: servers switch to HTTPS-only operation, without such "crippled" +//config: TLS code it is *impossible* to simply download a kernel source +//config: from kernel.org. Which can in real world translate into +//config: "my small automatic tooling to build cross-compilers from sources +//config: no longer works, I need to additionally keep a local copy +//config: of ~4 megabyte source tarball of a SSL library and ~2 megabyte +//config: source of wget, need to compile and built both before I can +//config: download anything. All this despite the fact that the build +//config: is done in a QEMU sandbox on a machine with absolutely nothing +//config: worth stealing, so I don't care if someone would go to a lot +//config: of trouble to intercept my HTTPS download to send me an altered +//config: kernel tarball". +//config: +//config: If you still think this is unacceptable, send patches. +//config: +//config: If you still think this is unacceptable, do not want to send +//config: patches, but do want to waste bandwidth expaining how wrong +//config: it is, you will be ignored. +//config: //config:config FEATURE_WGET_OPENSSL //config: bool "Try to connect to HTTPS using openssl" //config: default y |