Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Always redirect to https when TLSA records exist?

2014-09-12 Thread Matthias Wimmer
Hi Paul, El 2014-09-12 10:57:33, Paul Wise escribió: > Would it be possible for https-everywhere to always redirect to https > when TLSA DNS records exist? As far as I know publishing a TLSA records only indicates what certificate is used on a given service. Especially it does not indicate, that

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Chrome 2014.8.22 ("extremely stable") released

2014-09-12 Thread Nick Semenkovich
You can still run extensions in "developer mode" if you unzip the .crx, but we do definitely need a better approach to beta-testing things (especially rulesets). On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Buchner wrote: > On 27.08.2014 19:00, Jacob S Hoffman-Andrews wrote: >> On 08/27/2014 12:15

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Chrome 2014.8.22 ("extremely stable") released

2014-09-12 Thread Peter Eckersley
I fought hard with the Chrome team to get them to reintroduce a sensible way for developers to install their own .crx files, but I failed: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=133818 We clearly need to update our documentation to explain to people how to use the "load unpacked exte

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Always redirect to https when TLSA records exist?

2014-09-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 09:39 +, Matthias Wimmer wrote: > Especially it does not indicate, that every resource available on a > given HTTP URI is also available on the corresponding HTTPS URI. > > E.g. a shop may use a TLSA record for the X.509 certificate of its > secure webserver, but may onl

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Always redirect to https when TLSA records exist?

2014-09-12 Thread Seth David Schoen
Matthias Wimmer writes: > Especially it does not indicate, that every resource available on a > given HTTP URI is also available on the corresponding HTTPS URI. That possibility is a reason not to create redirections automatically, since historically we've had a number of examples of sites where

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Always redirect to https when TLSA records exist?

2014-09-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 18:17 -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote: > Matthias Wimmer writes: > > > Especially it does not indicate, that every resource available on a > > given HTTP URI is also available on the corresponding HTTPS URI. > > That possibility is a reason not to create redirections automati

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Turning HSTS headers into HTTPS Everywhere rules?

2014-09-12 Thread Seth David Schoen
Jameson Graef Rollins writes: > On Thu, Sep 11 2014, yan wrote: > > One potential downfall is that this would make the ruleset list very > > large, and HTTPS Everywhere is probably less efficient at doing its job > > than HSTS. > > This is sort of an odd comment, isn't it? Isn't the fundamental

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Always redirect to https when TLSA records exist?

2014-09-12 Thread Seth David Schoen
Paul Wise writes: > I don't have any data but I would hazard a guess that sites with DNSSEC > and TLSA setup are serious enough about security to not be that broken. I agree that those are very good signs that the operator cares about security, but it's still possible to imagine that they only se

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Always redirect to https when TLSA records exist?

2014-09-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 18:44 -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote: > I agree that those are very good signs that the operator cares about > security, but it's still possible to imagine that they only serve a > subset of their site resources over HTTPS. How about a new DNS record for the policy of the we