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Subject: Re: New package: FPLLL
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:13:54 +0100
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:
>> > I also tried to add gmp-ecm, but it is only downloadable over
>> > https://, which is not yet implemented.
>> Oh.  Would be great if they had an FTP or HTTP mirror.
>
> Would it be difficult to implement in guix? There are guile bindings
> in gnutls.

Right, so that=E2=80=99s definitely doable.  It just has to be done.  :-)

> One cannot reasonably tell people who use crypto to not do so.

OTOH, what matters most here is the authenticity and integrity of the
tarball, and TLS doesn=E2=80=99t help here.

(FWIW I=E2=80=99m also fond of EFF=E2=80=99s HTTPS-Everywhere; I just don=
=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s
this relevant here, esp. since we=E2=80=99ll eventually have content-based
mirrors as on hydra.nixos.org.)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.