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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:06:00 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
To:        "RW" <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cryptografically signed ISO images
Message-ID:  <18642.128.135.70.2.1393866360.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On Mon, March 3, 2014 10:40 am, RW wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:21:46 -0600 (CST)
> Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, March 3, 2014 10:02 am, RW wrote:
>
>> > That's fine if you can download the checksum files by HTTPS, but on
>> > an FTP server it's no more that a check against corruption.
>>
>> Yes, but: if you verified the certificate of https host, you can be
>> sure that ftp on the same IP address is owned by the same people.
>
> The IP addresses of www.freebsd.org and ftp.freebsd.org are
> different, but even if they weren't that wouldn't protect against
> man-in-the-middle attacks.

Silly me... you are absolutely right!

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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