Re: Broken links in Ceph documentation

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Nathan Cutler <ncutler@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> BTW, there are a lot of `http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/xxxx` links.
>>> It should be `https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/xxx` in our
>>> ReleaseNotes.rst
>>
>>
>> they are redirected to https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/xyz, so i
>> guess it's fine?
>
>
> "git clone http://github.com/ceph/ceph"; also works fine.
>
> Also, I am not aware of any security risk that is addressed by using SSL.
> Ceph is FLOSS, after all. Why encrypt the HTTP traffic?

The point of HTTPS in this context is not to keep the code a secret,
but to prevent modification in flight.

If you pull http:// code then your government can easily modify it in
flight to implant whatever they want.

John

>
> Nathan
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [CEPH Users]     [Ceph Large]     [Information on CEPH]     [Linux BTRFS]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]
  Powered by Linux