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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:16:03 +0000
From:      Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@gmail.com>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
Cc:        freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs
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On 11 December 2017 at 16:06, Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> wrote:

<snip>

SVN's shortcoming is that it does nothing for [integrity] on an inherent
> basis
> and this debate is thus about trying to use a tool that allegedly does
> three things when we really only need one of them.
>

<snip>

This is precisely why I suggested that something along the lines of a
Merkle Tree of signed hashes over the revisions would provide adequate
integrity, and I am guessing it'd be pretty straight forward to implement
with SVN hooks (maybe?). I just don't have the time to look into it in any
details.


-- 
Igor M.



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