Re: How to download over https

[Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>]

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 06/16/16 15:12:
>> Did you take a look here: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify , "Verifying
>> authenticity of Debian CDs"?
>> 
>> The https protocol would add quite some overhead to the download of the
>> iso-files which are already big by them self.
>> 
> This statement has to be corrected: the overhead of https is hardly
> perceptible on "modern" hardware. (See, e.g.,
> https://www.keycdn.com/blog/https-performance-overhead/ ,
> https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html )
>

Yeah, it's not much in the way for the hardware ... but it's still
electricity and bandwidth that needs paying for.

Not that I'm opposed to 'secure' transmissions by any means -- I'm more
personally opposed to "it MUST be HTTPS or else it's no good" thinking
that has started cropping up more and more recently. 

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