Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Checksums on downloads

2012-09-19 Thread Henrik Lindberg
I thought the checksums were just for checking against corrupt bits in the communication, not a security feature. - henrik 19 sep 2012 kl. 09:39 skrev Glyn Normington : > A user has pointed out that checksums downloaded over HTTP do not really add > any security since a man-in-the-middle could

[cross-project-issues-dev] Checksums on downloads

2012-09-19 Thread Glyn Normington
A user has pointed out that checksums downloaded over HTTP do not really add any security since a man-in-the-middle could substitute a checksum to match a substituted download. So why do we bother having these checksums? Would it be better to enable the checksums to be downloaded over https or d