From: Clemens Radermacher <clemens.radermacher@posteo.de>
To: 33825@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com
Subject: bug#33825: 25.2; , Failing to verify signature for ELPA debbugs package
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 13:34:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66111503-49dd-f295-f43f-3d07ef577697@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28t079ps6.fsf@gmail.com>
On 30.12.18 13:12, Robert Pluim wrote:
> There are 'transparent' proxies which will untar archives and then
> retar them, resulting in a file that fails signature verification even
> though the contents are identical. When you then repeat the download,
> the proxy knows it has previously inspected the file, and thus lets
> through the original. Using https solves this issue 99% of the time.
That's interesting thanks! For GNU ELPA I use http indeed, because I rely on Emacs
taking care of the verification. I don't understand why those proxies should
unpack archives though, is that for filtering purposes?
--
Clemens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-30 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-21 13:38 bug#33825: 25.2; Failing to verify signature for ELPA debbugs package clemera
2018-12-21 23:39 ` Glenn Morris
2018-12-22 12:08 ` bug#33825: 25.2; , " clemera
2018-12-30 12:12 ` Robert Pluim
2018-12-30 12:34 ` Clemens Radermacher [this message]
2018-12-30 12:55 ` Robert Pluim
2019-09-13 19:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-16 9:07 ` Robert Pluim
2019-09-16 11:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-16 13:28 ` Robert Pluim
2019-09-16 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-16 19:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-17 13:34 ` Robert Pluim
2019-09-20 17:24 ` Stefan Kangas
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