[Python-Dev] Re: Python release announcement format

2021-12-19 Thread David Mertz, Ph.D.
On Sun, Dec 19, 2021, 11:49 AM Steven D'Aprano > And both the download and the webpage listing the checksum are over https. > If we don't trust https, the whole internet is broken and changing to a > stronger checksum won't help. A hypothetical MITM attacker capable of > breaking https and

[Python-Dev] Re: Python release announcement format

2021-12-15 Thread Yann Droneaud
Hi, Have I missed something? Having the SHA-2 256 in the release email makes it a bit more immutable: my mailbox is not reachabable by the same people that can replace the release archives on the server. Let's say it's adding a second factor of trust. Regards. -- Yann Droneaud OPTEYA

[Python-Dev] Re: Python release announcement format

2021-12-15 Thread Yann Droneaud
Hi, Le 15/12/2021 à 02:42, Gregory P. Smith a écrit : On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 9:06 AM Yann Droneaud wrote: Should I open a bug for this issue ? Makes sense, it is a pretty small change to make to the announcement format. Filed. https://bugs.python.org/issue46077 Thanks, you

[Python-Dev] Re: Python release announcement format

2021-12-14 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 9:06 AM Yann Droneaud wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not familiar with the Python release process, but looking at the latest > release > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3101/ > > we can see MD5 is still used ... which doesn't sound right in 2021 ... > especially

[Python-Dev] Re: Python release announcement format

2021-12-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:56:09AM +0100, Yann Droneaud wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not familiar with the Python release process, but looking at the latest > release > > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3101/ > > we can see MD5 is still used ... which doesn't sound right in 2021 ... >

[Python-Dev] Re: Python release announcement format

2021-12-14 Thread Christian Heimes
On 14/12/2021 11.56, Yann Droneaud wrote: Hi, I'm not familiar with the Python release process, but looking at the latest release https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3101/ we can see MD5 is still used ... which doesn't sound right in 2021 ... especially since we proved it's