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Re: https for apt to prevent man in middle transparent proxy mirror attacks?



On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:15:21AM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> > maybe i simply don't understand, but isn't Packages file signing done
> > exactly to avoid such an attack?
> 
> Can you please explain how that works?

Sure, how about this:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch7.en.html#s-deb-pack-sign

Feel free to provide comments improving it if you don't understand it.

Regards

Javier

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