Bug#873122: HTTP Link to Keyring

Phil <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <1503606480.1788.1.camel__38142.9967041642$1503606798$gmane$org@riseup.net>
Hi Hanno,

Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention.

I'll submit a patch shortly for approval to get this amended.

Please do let us know if you spot anything else!

Phil

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:53:59 +0200 Hanno =?UTF-8?B?QsO2Y2s=?= <hanno@hb
oeck.de> wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> 
> When downloading a Debian CD there's a webpage explaining how to
verify
> signatures:
> https://www.debian.org/CD/verify
> 
> This recommends to check the signatures with the keys from the Debian
> GPG keyring. However that link is HTTP, pointing to:
> http://keyring.debian.org/
> 
> It will immediately redirect to HTTPS, but an attacker could
intercept
> that redirection and present a user with a malicious keyring instead.
> 
> This makes the verification kinda pointless, as the keyring is
> delivered over a potentially insecure channel. The lack of HSTS on
> debian.org makes this particularly worriesome. Please change that
link
> to HTTPS.
> 
> 
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