On Sat 06 Jul 2013 10:34:45 Malte Gell wrote:
We have learned how much effort governments take to control and monitor the Internet. With this in regard, wouldn´t it make sense to switch download.opensuse.org to SSL? I know, rpm packages are signed with GnuPG, but if you add a new repo an attacker still is able to give you a forged GnuPG key and a forged repo, not the repo you actually tried to subscribe to. Thus, GnuPG signing of rpm does not prohibit man in the middle attacks. I think SSL for download.opensuse.org would give more safety to people living in authoritarian regimes who want to download openSUSE software.
Malte
The downloads themselves don't need to be SSL. Nobody should really trust a large download without a checksum or some other sort of error checking. Many people use torrents now anyway, and often they're more reliable. But the openSUSE web page with the checksums for the downloads should absolutely be SSL. This should be easy to do. Regards, Eoin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-security+owner@opensuse.org