Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:26:44AM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 1/18/08, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 January 2008, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > > anonvcs.gentoo.org: anoncvs, anonsvn, anongit
> > > - Anonymous SVN is changing from http:// to svn:// [1]
> > > overlays.gentoo.org [3]:
> > > - Anonymous SVN is changing from http:// to svn://
> > i'd point out that http:// syncing is usable from behind firewalls while
> > svn:// is not ... while this does not affect me personally, it's something to
> > keep in mind.
> > -mike
> Just wanted to note this too... I am one of the affected ones...
> I think that it is very important to have http, and even https for
> formal resources.
> git://, svn://, rsync:// or ssh+X:// are inaccessible for a large
> group of users.
My core concern with the SVN http://, was the crappy performance it
provided compared to svn://. The main rsync tree has never been
available for iterative syncing via http://, just had tarball snapshots
and deltas instead.

> Also using none secured protocols, exposes users to man-in-the-middle attacks.
The existing http:// had this problem already, it's not a new one.
git:// and svn:// do both have patches around adding support for adding
TLS. This however just adds overhead, I really need to finish the
tree-signing work I was doing, as that protects the content better (MITM
is still possible on SSL without it, just a lot harder as an attacker
has to deal with the SSL stream first).

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