Re: HTTPS

From: Philippe Verdy via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 15:08:26 +0200

At least ! It was important. Thanks for promoting HTTPS everywhere.

2017-10-04 11:14 GMT+02:00 Mathias Bynens via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>:

> unicode.org and www.unicode.org are now available over HTTPS. E.g.
> https://unicode.org/Public/10.0.0/
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Robbert <mail_at_robbertbroersma.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For tools that rely on the Unicode database it would be great if the
>> databases were available over HTTPS as well:
>> https://www.unicode.org/Public/6.3.0/
>>
>> In addition to this it would be helpful if the archive also contains
>> SHA512 checksum files for each Unicode version to verify the integrity of
>> databases that have already been downloaded (over HTTP), e.g.:
>>
>> https://www.unicode.org/Public/6.3.0/SHA512SUMS
>>
>> Mozilla already offers such checksums, although unfortunately not over
>> HTTPS, but they can serve as an example.
>>
>> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases
>> /27.0/SHA512SUMS
>>
>> I think this would improve the security of many libraries that directly
>> and indirectly depend on Unicode.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Robbert Broersma
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