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Re: attacking hsts through ntp


From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:45:18 -0600



On 16/10/14 06:32 PM, Michael Samuel wrote:
On 16 October 2014 23:03, Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de> wrote:
Same should work for HPKP. The idea of setting some security feature
through a header needs a revisit.
The solution would be to have a more reliable PC time. How do we do
that?

A Date: header?


You can't trust remote servers you're getting the content from... what
if I send wonky times to try and screw with your browser? Or header
injection attacks? No thanks.

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