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authorPhilip Potter <philip.g.potter@gmail.com>2015-03-04T20·08+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2016-01-05T13·19+0100
commit4f3cf06c97cb1f15c74b51b60673a0ed9af0a603 (patch)
tree9df0c3ba03440ee764ba593846171e05f219d5da /corepkgs
parent39d1da7b51e6984a332a7eb68ae4048242b1adb8 (diff)
Verify TLS certificate before downloading binaries
The --insecure flag to curl tells curl not to bother checking if the TLS
certificate presented by the server actually matches the hostname
requested, and actually is issued by a trusted CA chain.  This almost
entirely negates any benefit from using TLS in the first place.

This removes the --insecure flag to ensure we actually have a secure
connection to the intended hostname before downloading binaries.

Manually tested locally within a dev-shell; was able to download
binaries from https://cache.nixos.org without issue.

[Note: --insecure was only used for fetching NARs, whose integrity is
verified by Nix anyway using the hash from the .narinfo. But if we can
fetch the .narinfo without --insecure, we can also fetch the .nar, so
there is not much point to using --insecure. --Eelco]
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