From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing guix download page from using HTTP to HTTPS
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 13:36:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170305183615.GA12515@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shmr7o1e.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 11:15:25PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the guix download page[0], it mentions "Source code for the Guix
> System Distribution USB installation images as well as GNU Guix can be
> found on the GNU ftp server for alpha releases:
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ (via HTTP) and
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ (via FTP).".
>
> Should we change "http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ (via HTTP)" to
> "https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ (via HTTPS)"?
Absolutely.
Everyone *should* verify the signatures, but I know that many people do
not. HTTPS makes it harder to perform a man-in-the-middle attack on
those users, and it also gives them some privacy.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-05 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-05 15:15 Changing guix download page from using HTTP to HTTPS Alex Vong
2017-03-05 16:32 ` ng0
2017-03-05 18:25 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-03-05 19:45 ` ng0
2017-03-05 19:47 ` ng0
2017-03-06 4:26 ` Alex Vong
2017-03-06 9:07 ` ng0
2017-03-05 18:36 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-03-05 18:38 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-06 10:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
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