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by _hnwo 4032 days ago
just read this: https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-saf...
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I don't understand. Why doesn't Simon Tatham the original author of Putty just buy a domain, and put Putty there? Looks like he's piggy-backing off-of someone else's domain, and then relying on supposedly odd RSA/DSA signing of the provided binaries? Odd, to say the least.