Re: Encrypted repos (https/ftps)

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 08:48:08PM +0200, DNS wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> i would like to ask you what you think about adding https/ftps mirrors
> to the mirror list?
> 
> Since we know about surveillance, it's becoming more relevant to have
> encrypted repositories, at least optional.
> 
> The issue is that our ISPs can see the names of the packages that we
> download, and i don't think anybody needs to see that. With encrypted
> connections this issue would be solved.

Encrypting it will not solve that.  It will only make it slightly
harder.


Kurt