Force Sparkle updater to always verify update and to use signed appcast#1638
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Sparkle 2.9 introduced the ability to verify appcast feeds using a signature. Turn that on to prevent MITM attacks. This requires the appcast on the server side to be re-generated with signature at the end. This was done in macvim-dev/macvim-dev.github.io#5.
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Sparkle 2.9 introduced the ability to verify appcast feeds using a signature. Turn that on to prevent MITM attacks.
This requires the appcast on the server side to be re-generated with signature at the end. This was done in
macvim-dev/macvim-dev.github.io#5.