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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:29:57 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: SSL not required for setup.exe download
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Greetings, Archie Cobbs!

> The FAQ states:

>     The Cygwin website provides the setup program (setup-x86.exe or
> setup-x86_64.exe) using HTTPS (SSL/TLS).

> While this is true, it's not mandatory.

> If one happens to go to HTTP://www.cygwin.com instead of
> HTTPS://www.cygwin.com, then neither the page you are viewing (which
> contains the setup.exe download link), nor the setup.exe download link
> itself are secured via SSL.

> So someone who just types "cygwin.com" into the browser location bar
> and clicks on the setup.exe link is vulnerable to a MTM attack.

> It would be safer if http://www.cygwin.com always redirected you to
> https://www.cygwin.com, where the page and the link are SSL.

> Is there any reason not to force this redirect and close this security hole?

If you care that much, you would use https.
If not, then I see no reason to bend to hysteric crowd.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, March 10, 2019 16:29:01

Sorry for my terrible english...


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