http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs
John-Mark Gurney
jmg at funkthat.com
Sun Dec 10 19:02:59 UTC 2017
Igor Mozolevsky wrote this message on Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 17:39 +0000:
> On 10 December 2017 at 17:32, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > The discussion has been for svn updates over http, not for freebsd-update
> > updates which are independantly signed and verified.. There is currently
> > no signatures provided via SVN to validate any source received via http.
>
> There has been no instance of in-transit compromise reported since SVN was
> introduced.
So, you require an exploit in the wild before you'll patch?
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