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Re: curl-users--insecure (Daniel Stenberg)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:06:46 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Timothe Litt wrote:

> To eliminate (or drastically reduce) --insecure, curl needs to make adding
> and using trust painless - at most a one-time confirmation. This is why the
> SSH 'known_hosts' model is attractive.

I started to jot down the exact steps that would be needed in order to have
curl do a "trust on first use" approach properly.

Here's what I have so far:

   https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/Trust-On-First-Use

Most of the building stones are already available.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2017-08-25