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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:33:40 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, Lee!

>> Which is way worse in my opinion, than any theoretical MITM attack, which
>> is easily mitigated with proper validation of your downloads.

> Serious question - exactly how does one do "proper validation of your
> downloads"?

Use PGP signature to validate the installer. Use separate channel to obtain
trust records for PGP key used in signing.

And not blindly trust "supposedly-secure" connections.


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Andrey Repin
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 23:31:45

Sorry for my terrible english...


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