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Apple's signing the updates anyway; HTTP will be much more performant.
by lumisota 9y ago
Apple's signing the updates anyway; HTTP will be much more performant.
- kalleboo 9y agoHTTP probably helps admins of large networks cache downloads for their 5000 computers that are all updating at once (if they're not running Apple's update cache server)
- willstrafach 9y agoThis is also how Apple’s cache server works, otherwise it would need to break the TLS connection, and that is not an improvement. I have personally looked at the accompanying connections and it looks like Apple sends hashes over a proper TLS connection. Updates are also signed as another layer of security.