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How Apple could fix it (and open it)
Authored by: escowles on Jul 09, '02 08:51:10AM
There is a golden opportunity for Apple to distribute a public key for validating future Software Update releases: Jaguar. Assuming it's like 10.1 where they are going to distribute CDs, they could include it in the Jaguar CD and install it by default.

For that matter, since openssl is already installed by default, they could also switch Software Update to use SSL-encrypted communication, which would allow them to use the public key to validate the update server, in addition to the packages once they're downloaded.

They could also have a public key and a new version of Software Update for download at their website (https, of course, so it can be verified to be Apple).

-Esme

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