• semi [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    I’m a developer and would appreciate you going into more specifics about which certificates you suggest pinning.

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      7 days ago

      I’m saying that if you’re a developer of software that communicates between two nodes across the internet, you shouldn’t rely on X.509 because the common root stores have historically been filled with compromised CAs, which would let someone with that CA decrypt and view the messages you send with TLS.

      You should mint your own certs and pin their fingerprints so that your application will only send messages if the fingerprint of the cert on the other end matches your trusted cert.