Thank you for support, so is the https enabled repository coming up?

Marek

On 10/26/2017 08:19 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> 林博仁 wrote...
> 
>> I believe that there's no benefit on accessing Debian archive with HTTPS as
>> they uses GnuPG for authentication
> 
> GnuPG indeed serves the purposes of authenticity and integrity very
> well. Modulo bugs every now and then, but they happen on other layers as
> well.
> 
> Also, nobody should rely on the privacy in this case since the server
> content is public and the clients have a fairly simple access pattern.
> Decoding the transfers from this isn't trival but seems doable with some
> effort - one day I'll write a prove of concept for this.
> 
> There is however a reason for https, a sad one though: Braindead
> "security" applicances that do deep packet inspection and might reject
> the download of packages.
> 
>     Christoph
> 

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