HTTPS on freebsd.org, git, reproducible builds

Daniel Feenberg feenberg at nber.org
Fri Sep 18 12:10:51 UTC 2015



On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, grarpamp wrote:

> Is there some reason "freebsd.org" and all it's
> subdomains don't immediately 302 over to
> https foreverafter?

Is there a reason to encrypt something that is completely public? Perhaps 
to allow the visitor to conceal the fact that they are interested in 
FreeBSD? That won't work, since the IP address of the server can't be 
encrypted. I feel like I am missing something.

dan feenberg


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