From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@gentoo.org>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>, gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Using HTTPS mirrors only in thirdpartymirrors (when possible)
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:30:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33ed4b48-1791-10bd-a7da-4559f9713d87@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36f599c2d7ada8d9ff20ea506e459a17a009d13a.camel@gentoo.org>
Michał Górny schrieb:
> Many 'FTP' hosts belong to different tiers. There's a major difference
> between knowing that a user is fetching *something* from big mirror of
> everything, and knowing the exact precise thing being fetched. It may
> mean knowing that the user is fetching vulnerable package (for whatever
> reason).
As Portage uses one connection per file, which exact file was downloaded can
still be inferred from the amount of transferred data (to a degree).
I agree that it is a step forward though, however small it is.
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-30 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-29 9:56 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Using HTTPS mirrors only in thirdpartymirrors (when possible) Michał Górny
2019-09-29 11:35 ` Piotr Karbowski
2019-09-29 14:54 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2019-09-29 15:48 ` Michał Górny
2019-09-30 5:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-09-30 5:35 ` Michał Górny
2019-09-30 20:30 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn [this message]
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