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Re: attacking hsts through ntp


From: Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:53:29 +0200

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

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.

It's not entirely a bad idea. You could say "if http header time and
system time differ severely (> 1 week or something) then don't connect
to hsts sites".

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