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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 46482@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46482: [core-updates] u-boot source cannot be downloaded
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:19:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCdFTBtwUDdkPlfl@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210213033752.499715c0@scratchpost.org>

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On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 03:37:52AM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Changing the URL to "https" instead of "ftp" would work.
> Changing it to "http" instead of "ftp" would also work.
> Which should we use?

I recommend HTTPS over HTTP. Although we don't verify the HTTPS
certificate with the X.509 PKI for this case [0], it still protects
against passive eavesdropping.

[0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/scripts/perform-download.scm?id=0e3de2cf1108ed0226297046302079fab9057522#n84

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-13  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-13  2:37 bug#46482: [core-updates] u-boot source cannot be downloaded Danny Milosavljevic
2021-02-13  3:19 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-02-13 18:34 ` Bengt Richter
2021-02-13 19:12   ` Leo Famulari
2021-02-14  3:57     ` Bengt Richter
2021-02-19 15:26 ` Ludovic Courtès

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