From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA security Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:54:32 +0900 Message-ID: <87li684ts7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <8738zf70ep.fsf@riseup.net> <871uejlbm1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k3rrr31g.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <874nium8h0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zk0ljaub.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wqvng299.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ip77y2s9.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <871u815wkz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371484491 13214 80.91.229.3 (17 Jun 2013 15:54:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:54:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 17 17:54:48 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UoblX-0005sP-Dp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:54:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43775 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UoblX-0000LG-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:54:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UoblS-0000Kw-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:54:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UoblR-0000De-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:54:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:34063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UoblR-0000CK-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9C3970989 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:54:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9A01511F6F8; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:54:32 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160507 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > I'd rather not build a certificate infrastructure ourselves. I have no problem with that. > CRLs are especially tricky. Trusting a maintainer signature at the > archive level and verifying it for each package when it's > downloaded seems like a good compromise for Emacs. Then there's no need for a signed or unsigned list.