[tor-talk] Downloading Firefox add-ons trough Tor. Safe?

tagnaq tagnaq at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 16:28:25 UTC 2011


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7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> Given the add-ons are updated via SSL,

The versioncheck is performed over SSL, the download actually happens
over plain HTTP most of the times (depends on the addon) - but the
update is nontheless "safe" because the file hash is checked.
See
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-June/020755.html
(incl. Mikes reply)

> as long as
> you check your certs for possible MIM attack using a "low integrity" CA.

Th check for Mozilla's certificate is hardcoded therefore it is not
possible to do a MITM attack with a different certificate.


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