Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 08:48, Karel Gardas wrote:
> > For users wanting to gpg check in phase 1, it's easy: archive-mirror to
> > the local disk, with copying signatures enabled. Then run the integrity
> > checking script tom proposed.
> 
> Aha, now I understand, you are talking about support for signatures on
> commit, etc. (i.e. pushing something into the archive) and avoiding any
> support for sigs. verification when the changeset is used. Yes, whole
> archive verification is quite easy scripting work...

Not avoiding, just ignoring ;). The signatures will be available after
all.

> In fact, during my thinking about the topic I came with reverse idea:
> verify signatures on get/etc. but sign changesets manually directly in
> archive + push-mirror change to push dump-copy of sign files.

Ah. Well, for remote archives (i.e. http/ftp) there is an obvious hole -
that is that you don't trust the transport. So signing before upload is
important.

Rob

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