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doc: cmd: wget: remove erroneous note

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The note about U-Boot not being able to verify server certificates is
false now that WGET_CACERT and WGET_BUILTIN_CACERT have been added.
Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
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Jerome Forissier
2025-06-17 14:10:58 +02:00
committed by Heinrich Schuchardt
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@@ -185,13 +185,6 @@ TCP Selective Acknowledgments in the legacy network stack can be enabled via
CONFIG_PROT_TCP_SACK=y. This will improve the download speed. Selective
Acknowledgments are enabled by default with lwIP.
.. note::
U-Boot currently has no way to verify certificates for HTTPS.
A place to store the root CA certificates is needed, and then MBed TLS would
need to walk the entire chain. Therefore, man-in-the middle attacks are
possible and HTTPS should not be relied upon for payload authentication.
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