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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads
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bill-auger |
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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads |
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Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:15:21 -0400 |
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 11:33 +0200, Jean Louis wrote:
> If users don't know how to verify PGP fingerprints
> with the issues of the PGP key, and it is anyway
> unlikely that any serious percentage would be
> doing so, then we are wasting time by creating
> apparent security.
it is why package managers such as apt and pacman run the verifications
implicitly so that the user does not need to know how it is done - i think this
discussion was prompted more in terms of downloading ISOs and installers - to
this ill add to that the parabola ISO can actually be made by any user of a
parabola system - one simply installs the 'parabolaiso' package and runs a
single command to generate a pristine ISO
of course you need an existing arch or parabola system to bootstrap this but
perhaps your neighbor has one but this ties Jean's reply into the one i posted a
few days ago showing that a community user-base can itself be a security feature
as long as someone in the community can advise and assist others and those
others know where to ask
the guix "blob-challenge" is another example of this
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- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, (continued)
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/06/20
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, Donald Robertson, 2018/06/20
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, 2018/06/24
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, Dmitry Samoyloff, 2018/06/25
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, bill-auger, 2018/06/25
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, Jean Louis, 2018/06/25
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads,
bill-auger <=
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, Jean Louis, 2018/06/25
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, Patrick McDermott, 2018/06/25
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, Jean Louis, 2018/06/26
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Help users to verify their downloads, Patrick McDermott, 2018/06/25