On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 07:21:17PM +0100, Jorge Timón wrote:
> On 1/3/14, Troy Benjegerdes <ho...@hozed.org> wrote:
> > 'make' should check the hash.
> 
> An attacker could replace that part of the makefile.
> Anyway, I think this is more oriented for compiled binaries, not for
> people downloading the sources. I assume most of that people just use
> git.
> 
> > The binary should check it's own hash.
> 
> I'm afraid this is not possible.
>
> > The operating system should check the hash.
> 
> There's package management systems like apt-secure that do exactly this.

Yes. Promoting operating systems (and signed .deb packages) is a far better
thing to do than worrying about TLS on the bitcoin.org server.

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