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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:58:36 -0700
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>, "Danilo G. Baio" <dbaio@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r464037 - head/irc/znc
Message-ID:  <cabb5aa7-56f5-e89a-c540-8270b45b49c7@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <r2os-ntg3-wny@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201803100016.w2A0GnR8013646@repo.freebsd.org> <fd8d2bb5-6235-f193-b8c5-e3cb37ea973d@FreeBSD.org> <20180310080202.GA18340@FreeBSD.org> <r2os-ntg3-wny@FreeBSD.org>

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From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org,
 ports-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>,
 "Danilo G. Baio" <dbaio@FreeBSD.org>
Message-ID: <cabb5aa7-56f5-e89a-c540-8270b45b49c7@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r464037 - head/irc/znc
References: <201803100016.w2A0GnR8013646@repo.freebsd.org>
 <fd8d2bb5-6235-f193-b8c5-e3cb37ea973d@FreeBSD.org>
 <20180310080202.GA18340@FreeBSD.org> <r2os-ntg3-wny@FreeBSD.org>
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On 3/10/2018 1:58 AM, Jan Beich wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>=20
>> 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 se=
e
>>> the benefit.
>>
>> Big +1 (HTTPS for distfiles is somewhat of a PITA for me as well).  Ca=
n
>> we please go back to plain good HTTP?  SHA256 provides enough assuranc=
e
>> against intermittent tampering with the distfiles.
>=20
> "make makesum" has no MITM protection with HTTP. Maintainers may work
> on updates outside of jail due to convenience and exposure to crazy
> make.conf optimizations. Only after an update is ready it's tested in
> a poudriere jail.
>=20

This is a very good point.

--=20
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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