Re: Debian mirrors and MITM
Peter Palfrader:
> On Fri, 30 May 2014, Joey Hess wrote:
>
>> Alfie John wrote:
>>> Taking a look at the Debian mirror list, I see none serving over HTTPS:
>>>
>>> https://www.debian.org/mirror/list
>>
>> https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian is the only one I know of.
>>
>> It would be good to have a few more, because there are situations where
>> debootstrap is used without debian-archive-keyring being available, and
>> recent versions of debootstrap try to use https in that situation, to at
>> least get the weak CA level of security.
>
> That doesn't buy you anything. Mirrors, even if you trusted them, don't
> use authenticated syncing protocols.
>
Looks like another issue worth fixing under the encrypt/authenticate all
the things credo.
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