From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPG Signed packages
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:45:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031122224554.GF17515@time> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031122131557.GS17770@james.is.never.wrong.nu>
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James Harlow wrote: [Sat Nov 22 2003, 08:15:57AM EST]
> I hope I've convinced people this is valuable.
I was convinced already, but it's really nice to see some first steps
listed and some worst case scenarios covered.
md5sums help to prevent problems due to corrupted downloads and/or
corrupted mirrors. This can include corruption due to malicious
tampering. However it doesn't provide the avenues of detection and
containment provided by signatures. An additional benefit of signatures
is that they can only be generated by a developer, whereas md5sums can
be generated by whoever.
Would it be possible to store the signatures in a file separate from the
sources themselves, similar to the digests at the moment?
Aron
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-22 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-22 2:09 [gentoo-dev] GPG Signed packages Yi Qiang
2003-11-22 4:38 ` Lisa Seelye
2003-11-22 5:24 ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-11-22 9:13 ` Torsten Veller
2003-11-22 13:15 ` James Harlow
2003-11-22 22:45 ` Aron Griffis [this message]
2003-11-23 10:45 ` Frank Zschockelt
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