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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2017-09-16 13:03:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> | 2017-09-19 13:10:44 +0200 |
| commit | 3562e384f43bbd9d48598904a82a792039f4ce33 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a45d82621c6ef569a78a80ff9deca518aeac56b /README | |
| parent | 29408e8b1d6efec3a416a761742e5cceae381d19 (diff) | |
| download | automake-3562e384f43bbd9d48598904a82a792039f4ce33.tar.gz | |
Prefer https: URLs
In Gnulib, Emacs, etc. we are changing ftp: and http: URLs to use
https:, to discourage man-in-the-middle attacks when downloading
software. The attached patch propagates these changes upstream to
Automake. This patch does not affect files that Automake is
downstream of, which I'll patch separately.
Althouth the resources are not secret, plain HTTP is vulnerable to
malicious routers that tamper with responses from GNU servers,
and this sort of thing is all too common when people in some other
countries browse US-based websites. See, for example:
Aceto G, Botta A, Pescapé A, Awan MF, Ahmad T, Qaisar
S. Analyzing internet censorship in Pakistan. RTSI
2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2016.7740626
HTTPS is not a complete solution here, but it can be a significant
help. The GNU project regularly serves up code to users, so we should
take some care here.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ information, see the file t/README. Automake has a page on the web. See: - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ + https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ Automake also has three mailing lists: @@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ Automake also has three mailing lists: and the design of new features. To obtain more information about these list, or to subscribe to them, -refer to <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/#mailinglists> +refer to <https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/#mailinglists> New releases are announced to autotools-announce@gnu.org. If you want to be informed, subscribe to that list by following the instructions at -<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autotools-announce>. +<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autotools-announce>. For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package, that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. @@ -65,4 +65,4 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |