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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla--devo--1.2 has preliminary gpg stuff


From: Robert Collins
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla--devo--1.2 has preliminary gpg stuff
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 09:58:09 +1100

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 06:55, Tom Lord wrote:

> 
> At any rate, it should only be an error if the archive is a signed
> archive.  Otherwise it should be at most a single warning that the
> archive is unsigned.

I think that that should be configurable in the long term - i.e.
--assume-signed-archive or some such - and retain the current behaviour
in the short term.

Otherwise, our conceptual attacker can simply remove
\=meta-info/signed-archive, and turn a hard failure into a warning.

Rob



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