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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Ubuntu 16.04 server --- Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80 when package-refresh-contents |
Date: | Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:21:29 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> The upcoming Emacs 26 should be much better in this regards, as it > uses https by default for elpa downloads. Some of the advice in that > blog entry is still useful though. http vs https is largely irrelevant when downloading from elpa.gnu.org since those packages come with a PGP signature which Emacs can check (and does check, assuming you have PGP installed). IIRC this has been true since Emacs-25. Stefan
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