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Re:Why does APT not use HTTPS? by ynniv on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:31AM (#18961418)
This is wrong. A great deal more privacy is attainable by trivially using HTTPS. Privacy in the presence of stream inspection is more difficult, but attainable by padding files to have quantized lengths.
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Re:Why does APT not use HTTPS? by Godel_unicode on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:57PM (#18962084)
You are entirely incorrect in this instance, for all the reasons laid out in this thread.

Looking at stream sizes is not "advanced deep packet inspection", it's in fact the opposite of that.

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