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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: SSL not required for setup.exe download
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imwn3jvr.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD8GWsv=R+G5P9_fNvMvC1+txqPELr=5s3R38jiPyCUj0AcTFg@mail.gmail.com>	(Lee's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:45:47 -0400")

Lee writes:
> I don't think it's a false sense of security.  https:// isn't "safe"
> but it is _safer_ than http://

Unless you are in an environment where an extra root cert is injected
just to be able to break up the encrypted connection.  Which is a lot
more common than people think and is not quite as easy to check for as
some folks make it out.


Regards,
Achim.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-12 20:42 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
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 [this message]
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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