Cryptography - Upstream and Cryptography - Client

[Malcolm Scott / Retrosnub]

At 10:14 yesterday, Felipe Agnelli Barbosa wrote:

> I am new to the list, I got my mirror and I would heal one question, how do
> I encrypt the data in sync with my Upstream?(I use rsync)

Why?  If you're worried about the data being tampered with, the metadata is 
protected by PGP signatures which are verified by apt, and the metadata 
contains hashes of the package data which are also verified, so it's safe 
out of the box.

> And also, how do I encrypt my data for my customers?

apt-transport-https allows clients to place https:// URLs in sources.list, 
but again I am unsure why this is necessary.

Malcolm

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