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Re: pkgsrc vs. https-only master sites



   Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:24:59 +0100
   From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>

   The next question is how useful ssl support is without a certificate
   chain... but we can postpone that discussion.

We don't rely on the CA protection racket for integrity -- that's what
distfiles are for.  We can't plausibly rely on TLS for confidentiality
-- the pattern of remote hosts reached by pkgsrc is surely too
predictable to hide the fact that one is using pkgsrc.  So it's really
just a more complex transport layer, for our purposes.

Is there a lighter-weight TLS stack we can use than OpenSSL?  axtls?


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