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Hardenize Guix website TLS/DNS

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From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: bo0od <bo0od <at> riseup.net>, Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 47823 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47823: Hardenize Guix website TLS/DNS
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 09:45:02 -0400

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No, resolved is on the client side. This means that they managed to set up dnssec, but some clients who use systemd (most Linux users) can't connect to gnu.org domains anymore. I don't think this is acceptable :)

Le 25 mai 2021 08:51:29 GMT-04:00, bo0od <bo0od <at> riseup.net> a écrit :
>Then dont use systemd to do that. There many other methods/tools to 
>achieve having it.
>
>Marius Bakke:
>> Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> skriver:
>> 
>>> Le 16 avril 2021 12:15:25 GMT-04:00, Leo Famulari
><leo <at> famulari.name> 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
>> 

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