[tor-talk] is Torbrowser more affected by webservers failing to send their complete certificate chain?

Nathaniel Suchy me at lunorian.is
Tue Aug 7 13:50:04 UTC 2018


Could you list some example websites that have this problem?
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:08 AM nusenu <nusenu-lists at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I assume that Torbrowser users are more affected by webservers
> that do not send their complete certificate chain (incl. interm. CAs)
> due to the fact that torbrowser stores/caches less data (including certs?)
> persistently.
>
>
> an example of a page that results in an TLS error page in Torbrowser due
> to incomplete cert. chain:
> https://irtf.org/
>
>
> https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=irtf.org&s=2001%3a1900%3a3001%3a11%3a0%3a0%3a0%3a2c&hideResults=on&latest
>
>
> With the growing number of sites deploying HSTS, the impact is even bigger.
>
> Should Torbrowser ship a few common interm. CAs by default? (like the
> letsencrypt issuing CAs)
>
>
>
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