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Re: Encrypted repos (https/ftps)



Hi Kurt,

thanks for the explanation!

Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > Encrypting it will not solve that.  It will only make it slightly
> > > harder.
> > 
> > In don't why that should make it only slightly harder. Please explain.
> 
> Because it leaks things like the size of all the packages you're
> downloading.  apt doesn't do pipelining.

Ok, so it's not as much helpful now as it could be, but may become
more useful in the future.

		Regards, Axel
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