txt-sysinstall scrapped

Josh Paetzel jpaetzel at freebsd.org
Sat Nov 6 05:17:14 UTC 2010


On Friday, November 05, 2010 11:48:27 pm Garrett Cooper wrote:
 
> >    Just to add to that (because I do find it a novel idea), 1) how
> > are you going to properly prevent man in the middle attacks (SSL, TLS,
> > etc?), and 2) what webserver would you use?
> >    I bring up the former item because I wouldn't want my data going
> > unencrypted across any wire, and what BSD compatible web servers did
> > you guys have in store and who would maintain the server, and what
> > kinds of vulnerabilities would you be introducing by adding a service
> > which would be enabled by default at runtime?
> 
> Sorry -- missed the SSL note. Other questions still outstanding :).
> 
> Thanks!
> -Garrett

Without putting much analysis into it, we talked about using lighttpd, which 
is BSDL.  As far as another service, it would be running for the install only 
which is in most circumstances something that happens locally.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
FreeBSD -- The power to serve
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