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doc: add a word on client certificates over untrusted connections
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vincentbernat committed Nov 13, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -127,7 +127,12 @@ certificates. Trusted certificates are built into the app and cannot
be modified.

The only possibility is to accept untrusted certificates in the
preferences.
preferences. This makes TLS useless and you could just use HTTP,
except if you are interested in client certificates. In this case,
blindly trusting the server certificate doesn't allow an attacker to
use your client certificate for its own requests (client has to
demonstrate its ability to sign a the whole handshake with its
certificate, including the "server certificate" message).

Client certificates
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