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From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>
To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r464037 - head/irc/znc
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Hi!

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 05:58:31PM -0800, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > This is a note in general, not specifically at you. But https for
> > distfiles only achieves 2 things: 1. Privacy against someone snooping
> > that you are downloading ZNC (is it really that important?) but still
> > can see your DNS and connections to the ZNC site... and 2. It breaks
> > proxy caching.  So I don't think MASTER_SITES should be converted to
> > https in general.  There's this odd push for it lately but I don't see
> > the benefit.
> 
> Big +1 (HTTPS for distfiles is somewhat of a PITA for me as well).  Can
> we please go back to plain good HTTP?  SHA256 provides enough assurance
> against intermittent tampering with the distfiles.

Has anyone really done a review of where things can go wrong if the
distfiles are accessed using HTTP-only ?

https://citizenlab.ca/2018/03/bad-traffic-sandvines-packetlogic-devices-deploy-government-spyware-turkey-syria/

Until that is the case, HTTPS is at least a little safer than HTTP.

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