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You can download it over http and check the SHA256SUMS.
Or better yet torrent it and check the same sha256
I can't remember if it was always like that or not, but all the apt repos are the same. No SSL and verification via signing.
Apt repos are like that for several reasons, one of which is that it allows DNS based mirroring without having to share a certificate. Another is that back when apt started out, HTTPS was pretty rare.
That's incorrect there's full SSL on deb.debian.org
Torrent programs already do checking hash checksums to determine if you got it 100%
thats also the only reason to check your download with a provided hash checksum from a website... to check the intigrity of the download and not for safety reasons
Torrents verify that the data they downloaded is correct.
That doesn't mean the data that was used to create the torrent was correct. In this case I suggested downloading via torrent (because of http) and then checking the sha from the website to verify everything matches. If it does they you've got a good iso!