On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:20 PM, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > <snip> > >>> Mirroring apparently also >>> requires some client changes. >> >> Mirrors can be used as long as you manually point a mirror when using >> them. We we are working on making the >> switch automatic. > > I think we've talked briefly about this before, but let me reiterate > that getting this right from a security point of view is quite a bit > harder than it at first appears, and IMHO it is worth getting right.
FWIW, Martin has added a section about mirror authenticity in the PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/#mirror-authenticity > > Geremy Condra > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
