Re: [Bitcoin-development] Secure download

2013-03-03 Thread Roy Badami
> (The reason for this is that (many? most? all?) CAs verify authority > by having you place a file at some HTTP path on the domain in > question. IME most CAs verify by emailing hostmaster/webaster@ or one of the contacts in the WHOIS. But you're right, still subject to a MitM. Still better than

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Secure download

2013-03-03 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Roy Badami wrote: > Would be nice to have a secure page at bitcoin.org, though, rathar > than having to go to github - certs from somewhere like Namecheap > should cost you next to nothing. For those of us too lazy (not > paranoid enough) to bother with GPG, a (se

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Secure download

2013-03-03 Thread Roy Badami
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 04:09:38PM -0500, Gavin Andresen wrote: > My gpg key is on the bitcoin.org homepage: > http://bitcoin.org/gavinandresen.asc > which you can access securely (and see the history of) at: > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/blob/master/gavinandresen.asc Would be n