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Re: A Look In the Mirror: Attacks on Package Managers



On Sun, 06 Jun 2010, Florian Weimer wrote:

> You'd have to fetch the root metadata from a trusted server over
> something like HTTPS (that is, something with authentication and a
> challange-response component built in).

That wouldn't be a stupid design at all.  It would also allow that root
metadata server to suggest mirrors to the client for downloading the
rest.

Cheers,
weasel
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