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Date:      Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:13:25 -0800
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs
Message-ID:  <11532fe7-024d-ba14-0daf-b97282265ec6@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A2709F6.8030106@grosbein.net>
References:  <97f76231-dace-10c4-cab2-08e5e0d792b5@rawbw.com> <5A2709F6.8030106@grosbein.net>

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On 12/05/17 13:04, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> It is illusion that https is more secure than unencrypted http in a sense of MITM
> just because of encryption, it is not.


It *is* more secure. In order to break it, you have to have compromized 
https authorities. Some state actors have plausibly done this. http, on 
the contrary, can be altered by anybody who has access to the wire, 
which is generally a much wider set.


Yuri




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