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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla
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Charles Duffy |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:57:37 -0600 |
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 12:51 -0800, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote:
> Yes to what? Both approaches are functionally equivalent. Darcs only
> checks signatures on unsafe mails, but other protocols should check
> authenticity themselves (anonymous users should not be able to check
> anything in).
Not remotely equivalent. Arch allows me to determine whether my archive
has been modified if the server I host it on has been cracked and
tampered with. Darcs has no such mechanism. (See the case where the
Linux CVS tree mirroring its BK repository was maliciously tampered with
to insert a vulnerability; Arch would have made this detectable, whereas
Darcs has no handling for this case).
> For me a Windows support is much more important and in darcs world
> Windows is a first class citizen. Unless you do the same people will
> standardize on something else than tla.
True -- but a completely separate and unrelated issue (to patch
signing).
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, lode . leroy, 2004/11/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Karel Gardas, 2004/11/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Dustin Sallings, 2004/11/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Karel Gardas, 2004/11/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Jan Hudec, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Karel Gardas, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Jan Hudec, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Karel Gardas, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Alexey N. Solofnenko, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla,
Charles Duffy <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Alexey N. Solofnenko, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Karel Gardas, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Alexey N. Solofnenko, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Talli Somekh, 2004/11/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, John A Meinel, 2004/11/16
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Mark Stosberg, 2004/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, John A Meinel, 2004/11/17
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Mark Stosberg, 2004/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, John A Meinel, 2004/11/17