Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-01 Thread Martin Uecker
Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: ... We need a secure downloading tool, we need it to be built into every OS by default and until then, we'll have to rely on tricks to hack it - preloading certs in browsers, having a website to download it from and so on. What we need are

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-01 Thread Martin Uecker
Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com: On 07/01/2013 07:22 PM, Martin Uecker wrote: Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: ... We need a secure downloading tool, we need it to be built into every OS by default and until then, we'll have to rely on tricks to hack it - preloading

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-01 Thread Martin Uecker
Hi Owen, Owen Barton o...@civicactions.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Martin Uecker uec...@eecs.berkeley.eduwrote: Owen Barton o...@civicactions.com wrote: This is roughly what I was suggesting with the http header (fetching the hash with a TLS HEAD request even

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-01 Thread Martin Uecker
1, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Martin Uecker uec...@eecs.berkeley.eduwrote: Owen Barton o...@civicactions.com wrote: This is roughly what I was suggesting with the http header (fetching the hash with a TLS HEAD request even if the download itself is not TLS). I think this may

Re: [liberationtech] to encrypt or not to encrypt?

2013-06-21 Thread Martin Uecker
On 06/21/2013 10:00 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 06:51:11PM +0200, phryk wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:55:57 -0400 Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: The solution to this is to make encryption more and more widely used. By increasing the number of people with access to