Re: F38 proposal: RPM Sequoia (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 8:17 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 13/10/2022 15:46, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > Also, a ton of Fedora mirrors still don't use HTTPS for various reasons.
>
> I think such insecure mirrors should be removed from metalink.

Why are they insecure? This is public open data, not banking data,
where the data being downloaded is verifiable by the rpm signatures
and signing keys. There is of course a chance an MitM attacker could
work out you're installing sendmail or tuxracer but there's other
mechanisms in place to ensure it's not compromisable mid stream.

The flip side is we remove the non https mirrors and the mirror system
slows down considerably, or in some cases is even unavailable, for
users which in IMO is more of a problem because people then really do
have insecure systems.

Peter
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