From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Using HTTPS mirrors only in thirdpartymirrors (when possible)
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 07:04:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w6g1rvyl6i3.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a88232f5ca7589de2caaec3490b9eaa56233d841.camel@gentoo.org> ("Michał Górny"'s message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:56:19 +0200")
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>>>>> On Sun, 29 Sep 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
> Why is it useful? In my opinion, the most important point is that it
> stops third parties from sniffing what the Gentoo hosts are fetching
> and using this information against them.
It won't hide the fact that a connection was established. Also, the
transferred data are public, and we verify them on the client side by
a checksum. So the advantage of https is very limited here.
Ulrich
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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 [this message]
2019-09-30 5:35 ` Michał Górny
2019-09-30 20:30 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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