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Cygwin's installation and security models?
- From: <lloyd dot wood at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 01:49:59 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Cygwin's installation and security models?
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- Reply-to: <lloyd dot wood at yahoo dot co dot uk>
I'd like to understand Cygwin's installation and
security models better:
- Cygwin's installers aren't signed.
- downloads are from a number of untrusted mirrors
via http/ftp, and packages aren't verified.
Is this correct?
thanks
Lloyd Wood lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk http://savi.sf.net/
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