[Freedombox-discuss] CAs and cipher suites for cautious servers like FreedomBox

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Fri Sep 13 06:01:23 UTC 2013


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 04:44:31PM +0100, Keith wrote:
> With a CA on each freedombox there need not be a requirement for a
> server.
> 
> If my understanding of Tor is right, it is designed for anonymity, not
> encryption, should not need a CA for this.

Can you get PFS with snakeoil (I presume these are generated during
the installation, is there at all enough entropy at that time so
this is safe?) certs?

Postfix and dovecot in newer versions can do PFS:
http://www.heinlein-support.de/blog/security/perfect-forward-secrecy-pfs-fur-postfix-und-dovecot/
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