[arch-dev-public] todo list for moving http -> https sources

[Gaetan Bisson]

[2016-10-31 15:19:40 +0100] NicoHood:
> I'd also vote for https. It does not hurt to use a secure channel to
> download the sources from. It would be great if we as ArchLinux team
> could make the first step into that direction.
> 
> Using PGP signatures is another discussion, also the hash algorithm. I
> think we should discuss that in another post, appart from https. From my
> point of view its highly important to use a strong hash function as its
> highly important for the source integrity and not only meant as checksum
> for corruption detection.

You know HTTPS uses hash functions too, right? And you know they are in
many cases much weaker than those GnuPG uses by default, right?

-- 
Gaetan
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