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Re:Let's Encrypt tls-sni-01 disabled due to credible vulnera... by terom on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:28AM (#16113901)
Sorry, I just chose cloudflare as a random example when speculating, I don't have any information about what specific providers this would affect, and I'm not implying that cloudflare would be affected.

Seems like my guess was right, though!

Re:Let's Encrypt tls-sni-01 disabled due to credible vulnera... by jgrahamc on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:30AM (#16113912)
No, need to apologize.

When you say "Seems like my guess was right, though!" are you saying that there is some way that Cloudflare is involved?

EDIT: I see (https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2018-01-09-issue-with-tl...) now. I don't think LE has been in contact with us so don't think we're affected but happy to be told otherwise.

Re:Let's Encrypt tls-sni-01 disabled due to credible vulnera... by terom on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:55AM (#16114028)
I would indeed like to explicitly apologize, because I regret mentioning "cloudflare etc" as an example. That's exactly the kind of bad speculation that leads to harmful rumors based on misunderstandings.

> When you say "Seems like my guess was right, though!" are you saying that there is some way that Cloudflare is involved?

No. It seems like I was right about the general nature of the vulnerability. It remains to be seen what providers are affected.

That being said, at this point, I'd personally be happier seeing a list of providers NOT affected, rather than a list of affected providers... It's probably also in "major public CDN provider's" interest to demonstrate that their user cert validation processes would have prevented this attack, and their customers were not at risk before LE pulled the plug...

Re:Let's Encrypt tls-sni-01 disabled due to credible vulnera... by puddums on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:43AM (#16113978)
One of the requirements listed [1] as being needed for exposure to this for the provider is:

Users have the ability to upload certificates for arbitrary names without proving domain control.

When you say you were right, are you saying Cloudflare allows that?

[1] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2018-01-09-issue-with-tl...