CUPS is now linked against OpenSSL
    Jakub Wilk 
    jwilk at debian.org
       
    Tue Jan 14 11:32:14 UTC 2014
    
    
  
* Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>, 2014-01-13, 23:03:
>if the only axis we're measuring along is cryptographic security, then 
>protecting against passive attackers (eavesdroppers) is clearly better 
>than not doing so.
>
>but if people think that CUPS' TLS protects them against active 
>attackers, and they use that to do things like send confidential 
>information over the link, they have been lulled into a false sense of 
>security.
Hear, hear.
So, how would people feel about the following policy:
TLS clients must either:
- validate server certificates;
- or prominently document that they don't do that?
?
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Jakub Wilk
    
    
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