Yeah, shasums are usually pgp signed. HTTPS is a protection against traffic sniffing, nothing more than that. While it's nice to use it everywhere, it doesn't really protect against MitM.
On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 1:10:29 AM UTC+4, Igor Partola wrote: > > This is a security issue. For example this announcement of 0.11.9 > availability (http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/11/20/node-v0-11-9-unstable/) > is served in plaintext, such that the SHA1 signatures can be tempered along > with the binaries to run arbitrary code on the target machine. Note that > there is no option to access any resource on *.nodejs.org via HTTPS > > Please enable HTTPS on this site. Additionally, please provide checksums > using algorithms other than SHA1, such as SHA256. > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
