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Re: any incident IRC?
From: "Kurt Seifried" <bugtraq () seifried org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:26:10 -0600
You might want to check out http://suidnet.org its a nice collection of
IRC
servers communicating with each other and clients via encrypted tunnels. Majority of the users are security addicts and unix users.
They are still using self signed certs (making the whole ssl client thing rather pointless, if an attacker can sniff your connection he can certainly use dsniff to mangle it, or poison your dns cache and use dsniff). I wish they would at some point either build a proper cert hiearchy (so you can install a root cert and be done with it). CN = localhost CN = irc.obey.org OU = suidnet O = suidnet L = Los Angeles S = California C = US hint: not many people connect from localhost, you might want to put "losangeles.ca.us.suidnet.org" in there. And yes, I mentioend this to them ages and ages ago. If you're going to force people to use ssl the least you can do is at least get it right on your end :P
Brian
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- RE: any incident IRC? Brian McKinney (Jun 26)
- Re: any incident IRC? Kurt Seifried (Jun 27)
- Re: any incident IRC? skyper (Jun 27)