From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net>

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> On Jan 14, 2017, at 2:21 PM, shaclacroi <shaclac...@fastservice.com> wrote:
>
> The download page links to checksums at
http://www.freedos.org/download/verify.txt -- but since this page isn't
available over https, there's no way to confirm the validity of the checksums,
since the page could be intercepted and modified by a man-in-the-middle
attacker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack).
>
> As free secure https certficates are now offered by Let's Encrypt
(https://letsencrypt.org/), it may be advisable to get https set up for
www.freedos.org.
>
> Alternatively, as I see your hosted on Amazon Web Services, if you're using
Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon CloudFront, Amazon's Certificate Manager also
offers free https certificates.
>
> Let me know if I can be of any help.

If you are still concerned that your download might have been compromised by a
MIM, you can get copies of the MD5 & SHA256 hash values or even the download
the entire release media from my server https://fd.lod.bz <https://fd.lod.bz/>
.. At present, it contains a mirror of the FreeDOS releases and a FreeDOS
compatible software repository. The repo contains all the packages that shipped
with FreeDOS 1.0 through 1.2, the official repository and a couple other free
software packages that are not in the official repo.

Jerome


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class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 14, 2017,
at 2:21 PM, shaclacroi &lt;<a href="mailto:shaclac...@fastservice.com";
class="">shaclac...@fastservice.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br
class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div
style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;" class=""><div class="">The
download page links to checksums at <a 
href="http://www.freedos.org/download/verify.txt"; 
class="">http://www.freedos.org/download/verify.txt</a> -- but since this page 
isn't available over https, there's no way to confirm the validity of the 
checksums, since the page could be intercepted and modified by a 
man-in-the-middle attacker (<a 
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack"; 
class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack</a>).</div>

<div class="">&nbsp;</div>

<div class="">As free secure https certficates are now offered by Let's Encrypt
(<a href="https://letsencrypt.org/"; class="">https://letsencrypt.org/</a>), it
may be advisable to get https set up for <a href="http://www.freedos.org";
class="">www.freedos.org</a>.</div>

<div class="">&nbsp;</div>

<div class="">Alternatively, as I see your hosted on Amazon Web Services, if
you're using Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon CloudFront, Amazon's Certificate
Manager also offers free https certificates.</div>

<div class="">&nbsp;</div>

<div class="">Let me know if I can be of any
help.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>If you are
still concerned that your download might have been compromised by a MIM, you
can get copies of the MD5 &amp; SHA256 hash values or even the download the
entire release media from my server <a href="https://fd.lod.bz";
class="">https://fd.lod.bz</a>&nbsp;. At present, it contains a mirror of the
FreeDOS releases and a FreeDOS compatible software repository. The repo
contains all the packages that shipped with FreeDOS 1.0 through 1.2, the
official repository and a couple other free software packages that are not in
the official repo.&nbsp;</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Jerome</div><br
class=""></body></html>
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