Re: git:// protocol over SSL/TLS

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Our sysadmns are mainly worried about possible MITM which might give
users completely wrong repo.

For sure users might simply compare hash of HEAD from https'ed site
with repo browser with what they've got in the checkout. But that's an
extra step which we'd like to avoid without security harm :)

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> So guess we just need to recommend using https:// protocol instead of
>> git:// for our users?
>
> Given how easy it is to verify the integrity of a git repository out of
> band there isn't really much of added security by using TLS for
> transport.
>
> Andreas.
>
> --
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> "And now for something completely different."



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