On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 06:54:44AM -0400, Peter wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006 23:45:17 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> 
> >The problem, in short, is how to handle the checksumming and signing of
> >gentoo-provided files so that manipulation by external entities becomes
> >difficult.
> all snip...
> 
> PMFJI, but as a user, not a security expert, I had a few thoughts that I'd
> like to throw in. Thanks to Patrick, he helped me to drill down some of
> the ideas and I present them for consideration. It's just a framework, so
> I will be brief.
Even larger snip.

I was actually looking at something similar to this, for the 'simple'
portion of Patrick's plan. You have most of the major ideas down, but
missed a few holes, and sticking points.

I'll try to get a writeup of it out later tonight, got a double-date
first ;-).

Thanks for the good writeup of Slackware as well, it's one I didn't
elaborate much on when I previously described the processes of
RPM-distros and Debian.

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