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In message <[email protected]>, Karl Denninger
 writes:

>> As I mentioned humoursly to you in private email, I don't think
>> this particular problem will reach consensus any sooner if you 
>> also tangling it in the SVN vs GIT political issue.
>
>Fair enough but I think my underlying point -- that svn ought to provide
>the ability to distribute signed bits, and if it can't then it should
>either be wrapped or augmented to do so if possible, and tossed if not,
>remains valid.

It sure does, but knowing crypto-code and knowing the projects
decision making process about such things, I see neither adding that
to svn nor replacing svn as feasible this side of 2020.

>Removing unencrypted transport is thus IMO a net bad as it *claims* to
>address this but doesn't.  That's bad because you now lead people to
>*believe* they have a secure means of tracking the project's bits but
>that's factually false.

+1

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