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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Lee <ler762@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: SSL not required for setup.exe download
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1715197846.20190312233340@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD8GWsv=R+G5P9_fNvMvC1+txqPELr=5s3R38jiPyCUj0AcTFg@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings, Lee!

>> Which is way worse in my opinion, than any theoretical MITM attack, which
>> is easily mitigated with proper validation of your downloads.

> Serious question - exactly how does one do "proper validation of your
> downloads"?

Use PGP signature to validate the installer. Use separate channel to obtain
trust records for PGP key used in signing.

And not blindly trust "supposedly-secure" connections.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 23:31:45

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-12 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-10  4:54 Archie Cobbs
2019-03-10 13:35 ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-10 16:35   ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-10 14:16 ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-10 16:40   ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-11  3:51     ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-11  5:16       ` Mark Geisert
2019-03-11 11:50         ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-11 13:13         ` SSL should not be " L A Walsh
2019-03-11 13:44       ` SSL not " Archie Cobbs
2019-03-11 19:42         ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-11 22:14           ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-11 22:59             ` Lee
2019-03-12 13:47               ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-12 14:31                 ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-12 14:58                   ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-15 12:25                     ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-28 18:13                       ` Erik Soderquist
2019-03-12 19:21                 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-12 19:59                 ` Lee
2019-03-12  0:20             ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-12 19:45               ` Lee
2019-03-12 20:35                 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2019-03-12 21:14                   ` Lee
2019-03-12 21:35                     ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-12 22:01                       ` Lee
2019-03-12 20:42                 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-12 21:32                   ` Lee
2019-03-12 21:35                 ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-12 21:50                   ` Lee
2019-03-13 20:50                     ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-11 20:24         ` SSL should not be required for open source downloading L A Walsh
2019-03-10 14:16 ` SSL not required for setup.exe download Brian Inglis
2019-03-10 23:20   ` L A Walsh
2019-03-11  3:53     ` Archie Cobbs
2019-03-11 13:13       ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-11 13:22       ` L A Walsh
2019-03-11 13:39         ` L A Walsh

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