Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Help [problem DL'ing tuxmath/tuxtype]

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:52:05PM -0500, David Bruce wrote:
> For things like online banking, a valid SSL cert is obviously
> critical, but I've never quite understood why our package downloads
> have to go through https:// rather than plain old http://.

Well, that would be to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks where
bad guys surrepticiously install keyloggers into the software
being downloaded from the server, and thus own the end-users bank
account password via that route. ;)

-bill!