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		mjevans on Jan 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does APT not use HTTPS? It doesn't need to, the actual security is implemented on a per-package basis. https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt#How_to_manually_check_for_...

Tepix on Jan 21, 2019 [–]

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