On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:34:41 +0100 W. Kosior via Replicant wrote:

> Well, if you download the certificate file from [1], then your browser
> actually verifies the certificate chain used by the letsencrypt.org
> website.

But in the particular case, the web browser (on Replicant) does not
have that certificate, i.e. it cannot verify the chain, right?

> [...] to verify that the mirror owner is not
> doing something nasty.  However, when both the checksum and the file
> are served from the same server, the checksum brings little benefit.

What about integrity checks? Are those useless?
Also why not put the ckecksums on different hosts too?
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