Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : rget Version : 0.0.7 Upstream Author : Brandon Philips <bran...@ifup.org> * URL : https://github.com/merklecounty/rget * License : Apache-2 Programming Lang: Go Description : download URLs and verify the contents against a publicly recorded cryptographic log
rget downloads URLs and verifies the contents against a publicly recorded cryptographic log. The public log gives users of rget a number of useful properties: - Verifiability of a downloaded URL's contents being identical to what the rest of the world sees - Searchability of recorded content changes of a URL - Notifications to any interested party about changes to the URLs contents In practice the way the system works is a URL owner will publish the cryptographic digests at a URL adjacent to the content a rget user is downloading. The rget tool will download the digest and verify this digest appears in the Certificate Transparency log via a specially crafted DNS name. More information at https://merklecounty.substack.com/p/rget-a-secure-download-user-story
