From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ubuntu 16.04 server --- Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80 when package-refresh-contents Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:21:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20180117121229.GB14008@tuxteam.de> <87po684l16.fsf@cgc-instruments.com> <87shb4bl9v.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516224050 31907 195.159.176.226 (17 Jan 2018 21:20:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:20:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 17 22:20:45 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ebv8S-0007f4-NB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:20:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebvAP-0001Sk-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebv9q-0001SN-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebv9n-0002LG-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55220 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebv9m-0002KA-R0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:22:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ebv7P-0003tL-4I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:19:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:M25RtJPhSkkojhayRONKIqxCMWU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115763 Archived-At: > The upcoming Emacs 26 should be much better in this regards, as it > uses https by default for elpa downloads. Some of the advice in that > blog entry is still useful though. http vs https is largely irrelevant when downloading from elpa.gnu.org since those packages come with a PGP signature which Emacs can check (and does check, assuming you have PGP installed). IIRC this has been true since Emacs-25. Stefan