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by perennialmind 2635 days ago
I don't know why back-to-back SSL proxies were never afforded an officially sanctioned mechanism for explicitly delegating trust. The alternative is this "I know you're lying, but I love you too much to leave you" mentality.

If you're asking package managers to facilitate such a morally compromised relationship, your best bet is to make user intent explicit and circumscribed. One way to signal that intent might be to adopt a trust-on-first-use approach:

  > rustup --detect-mitm
  MITM thumbprint: 567d3e4c...
  > rustup --permit-mitm=567d3e4c...
Not that that would be easy to do, mind you.