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From: Vince Rice <vrice@solidrocksystems.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C9F285-6E2A-4111-BBDE-957A6E4B4581@solidrocksystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A702EAF3FBD@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net>

> On Apr 25, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Nellis, Kenneth <Kenneth.Nellis@xerox.com> wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Dinwoodie 
>> ...
>> But I agree with Brian: the Cygwin website
>> should use https everywhere unless there's some good, specific reason
>> why it's a bad idea...
> 
> 1. Did Brian say that? I couldn't find it in the thread.
> 2. I would be interested to hear the rationale for such a statement.
> Cygwin is open source. What's the point of encrypting?

I’m not sure what being open source has to do with it.
It should be encrypted for privacy. Frankly, from what we’ve seen in the last couple of years, plain http: should disappear. It should all be https. (And Adam is exactly correct on the performance; it is a non-issue today and has been for years.)



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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-25 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-25  0:05 Brian Clifton
2016-04-25  0:29 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-25  5:50   ` Brian Clifton
2016-04-25  6:10     ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-25 13:20       ` Adam Dinwoodie
2016-04-25 17:41         ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-26 10:17           ` Csaba Raduly
2016-04-25 19:59         ` Nellis, Kenneth
2016-04-25 20:46           ` Vince Rice [this message]
2016-04-25 23:18             ` Brian Clifton
2016-04-26 19:19               ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-27 10:18         ` Linda Walsh
2016-05-20 16:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-05-20 20:47   ` Warren Young
2016-05-22  0:30   ` Brian Clifton
2016-05-23 10:35     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-05-24 12:42       ` Warren Young
2016-05-24 16:59         ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-05-24 18:55           ` Warren Young
2016-06-12 10:13       ` Brian Clifton
2016-06-14 19:20         ` Corinna Vinschen

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