Cygwin website uses http: (not https:) for .exe downloads, allowing man-in-the-middle attack

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 17:31 -0500, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> The Cygwin front web page ( https://www.cygwin.com/ ) says:
> "Install it by running setup-x86.exe (32-bit installation) or
>  setup-x86_64.exe (64-bit installation)."
> 
> However, both of the links to those .exe executables explicitly
> use "http://", and not "https://", even when you go to the https
> version of the Cygwin website.

The links are now relative, so this should no longer be an issue.

Thanks for reporting,

Yaakov



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