There are alternatives which check the SHA1 checksums on the files.Maybe not quite the same thing as SSL but it does a similar verification job.
Take a look at ivyroundup: http://code.google.com/p/ivyroundup/
On 19/01/12 02:45, Tomáš Nechutný wrote:
Hello, since master Maven repository is not available via SSL I was wondering is there any plans to distribute public keys and automatically verify downloaded artifacts? Thank you.
