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Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by eadmund on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:07AM (#36892842)
Quicklisp doesn’t need to support TLS, but it does need to support authentication of some sort. Signing files would be good enough.
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Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by joe-user on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:19PM (#36900917)
Are you proposing authentication over an insecure connection? If so, then the credentials could be compromised by a middle man. The same would be true for the signatures.
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