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by CHY872 1298 days ago
Yes, the gpg piece provides that functionality nicely. However, it’s exceedingly common for the mirrors to not be provided over TLS for cost reasons. Netflix switched to serving video over TLS for no other reason than to promote the usage of TLS (after a lot of custom engineering (pki on cpu, crypto on nic iirc?) to reduce the overheads of doing this.