From: Giuseppe Mazzotta <giuseppe@bitonic•nl>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: why Google Protocol Buffers for encoding?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:19:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C90C2B.3090708@bitonic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP3PCHaTO3-HA3GHFxwuJJpW2dbvPuV4R1sFPcFW49uGgw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28-01-15 16:42, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Just as a reminder, there is no obligation to use the OS root
> store. You can (and quite possibly should) take a snapshot of the
> Mozilla/Apple/MSFT etc stores and load it in your app. We do this
> in bitcoinj by default to avoid cases where BIP70 requests work on
> some platforms and not others, although the developer can easily
> override this and use the OS root store instead.
>
Except that Mozilla/Apple/MSFT will update these certificate stores -
second their policies - and your snapshot/collection might get
outdated at a different pace than the OS-provided certificates,
depending on how you (or the package maintainer) are rolling out updates.
I am not saying that OS-provided certificate stores are a holy grail,
as they comes with their quirks&headaches (for example try to install
your CA certificate on Mac), but generally I consider shipping your
own snapshot a bad practice, as it makes the system less secure by
default for the casual user and harder to audit for the (eventual) admins.
If you are a developer, that's a whole different story.
- --
Giuseppe Mazzotta
/- Bitonic _/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-28 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-28 12:45 Nicolas DORIER
2015-01-28 13:32 ` Wladimir
2015-01-28 14:00 ` Nicolas DORIER
2015-01-28 15:42 ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 16:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-28 16:52 ` Nicolas DORIER
2015-01-28 17:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-28 17:45 ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 16:19 ` Giuseppe Mazzotta [this message]
2015-01-28 16:51 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-01-28 17:02 ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 16:34 ` Nicolas DORIER
2015-01-28 16:55 ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 17:04 ` Nicolas Dorier
2015-01-28 17:14 ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-28 17:17 ` Angel Leon
2015-01-28 17:27 ` Nicolas DORIER
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-19 19:07 Richard Brady
2015-01-19 19:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-19 19:16 ` Richard Brady
2015-01-19 19:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-19 19:48 ` Peter Todd
2015-01-19 19:57 ` Richard Brady
2015-01-19 20:03 ` Alan Reiner
2015-01-19 20:06 ` Peter Todd
2015-01-19 20:40 ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-19 20:56 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-01-19 21:22 ` Brian Hoffman
2015-01-19 20:59 ` Ross Nicoll
2015-01-24 13:19 ` Isidor Zeuner
2015-01-25 22:59 ` Ross Nicoll
2015-03-14 15:58 ` Isidor Zeuner
2015-03-24 12:08 ` Jorge Timón
2015-01-19 21:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-01-19 19:19 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-01-19 19:37 ` Mike Hearn
2015-01-19 19:38 ` Jeff Garzik
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