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Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow



Bret Busby wrote:
> Why a web page published to provide information to the public, needs
> to be "https", I have no idea.

To create more https traffic.  If you only encrypt important things
then if it is encrypted them it must be important.  An attacker now
knows that every piece of encrypted traffic is a high value crack.  

On the other hand if random things are encrypted then important
traffic is lost in the sea of random unimportant things.  This hides
important traffic.  An attacker may spend cpu years cracking something
only to find that it is an unimportant random page on a wiki.  Using
https on random things gives important traffic a forest of trees to
hide in.

Bob

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