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by octaspire 3243 days ago
Thank you for the kind words and the feedback!

Some notes on the third point on the list:

* Latest release of Octaspire Dern can be downloaded through secure HTTPS connection from here:

      https://octaspire.github.io/dern/release.tar.bz2

  SHA-512 checksum for the latest release can be downloaded from:

      https://octaspire.github.io/dern/checksums

  SHA-512 checksums of all past releases can also be found from: https://octaspire.github.io/dern/


  What I have done in my other asciicasts is this (for example in Dern introduction/tutorial
  at https://asciinema.org/a/123972):

  curl -O octaspire.com/dern/release.tar.bz2
  tar jxf release.tar.bz2
  cd release/*
  curl -O https://octaspire.github.io/dern/checksums
  sha512sum -c checksums

  This is what I have recommended in the manual

      http://www.octaspire.com/dern/Programming_in_Octaspire_Dern.html

  Both the release and checksums could be downloaded from https://octaspire.github.io/dern/ but
  I though that by downloading them from two different servers (octaspire.com and octaspire.github.io)
  would have the added safety factor that attacker would have to get access to both distinct servers to
  be able to modify both the release and the checksums. And the checksums are available only through HTTPS,
  even if the release is available through HTTP and HTTPS.
  
  But I too recommend to always check the checksums. I should not have cut corners while making this video.
  Or at least I should have downloaded the file through HTTPS when not checking the files.
1 comments

I noticed it can be done. I was juts pointing out that it wasn't done in the video.