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#1097 Update Sparkle and use HTTPS for updates

v1.0
closed-wont-fix
nobody
None
5
2016-06-24
2016-06-20
Mike
No

Sparkle needs to be updated so that your updates are validated correctly. Currently, updates happen over HTTP, which could allow an attacker to MITM the update and therefore provide malware instead.

Discussion

  • Christiaan Hofman

    • status: open --> closed-wont-fix
     
  • Christiaan Hofman

    The updates are validates using the signature. So this can not happen.

    We cannot update to a later Sparkle version, as Skim supports 10.6, and the latest Sparkle requires 10.7.

    (A newer Sparkle version won't change that SF.net uses http.)

     
  • Christiaan Hofman

    And be aware that we use a patched version of the the old Sparkle, to take care of security vulnerabilities, inclduing the ones you mention.

     

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