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→New URI proposal (apt:// or yum://)
For developers however the deployment of the infrastructure required to host an entire debian archive may be too much. In such circumstances however there is a very simple additional proposition which takes care of that: either a deb:// URI or simply to activate installation and execution of packages when a "http://{fqp}/packagename.deb" URL is encountered.
=== List of GNU/Linux Distributions that use Package Signing ===
At this URL is a useful description of how package signing works in various GNU/Linux distributions.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_signing#How_signing_is_implemented_in_other_distributions
This list excludes BSD ports such as FreeBSD. FreeBSD's system is outlined here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/portsnap.html
These systems appear to make prevalent use of SHA1 and MD5 (simultaneously) for extra care on checksums: the use of GPG/PGP is also notably prevalent.
It is worth emphasising that '''AT NO TIME''' is there '''any''' mention of a GNU/Linux Distribution which makes sole and exclusive use of SSL.
=== Permissions manager ===
