Subject: bug#47823: Hardenize Guix website TLS/DNS

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 23:36:40 +0200

Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]> skriver:

> Le 16 avril 2021 12:15:25 GMT-04:00, Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> a écrit :
>>On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:00:05AM +0000, bo0od wrote:
>>> Scanning Guix website gave many missing security features which
>>modern
>>> security needs them to be available:
>>> 
>>> * TLS and DNS:
>>> 
>>> looking at:
>>> 
>>> https://www.hardenize.com/report/guix.gnu.org/1618568751
>>> 
>>> https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=guix.gnu.org
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>> - DNS: DNSSEC support missing (important)
>>
>>Hm, is it important? My impression is that it's an idea whose time has
>>passed without significant adoption.
>>
>>But maybe we could enable it if the costs are not too great.
>
> gnu.org does not have dnssec, so we'd need them to work on that first.

gnu.org used to have DNSSEC, but disabled it because it gave NXDOMAIN
on machines with systemd-resolved:

  https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9867