From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: GNU ELPA security and Org-mode Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:04:29 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491491116 20039 195.159.176.226 (6 Apr 2017 15:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 15:05:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 06 17:05:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cw8y5-0003ym-SV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 17:05:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46413 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cw8yB-0001Js-WD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cw8y1-0001JU-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cw8xw-0002pK-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:04:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44334 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cw8xw-0002oY-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cw8xk-0001vm-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2017 17:04:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:L0455QuDEoTEj2Rt3PwqAgF9NFw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:213715 Archived-At: I just realized that the GPG-signing we're doing in GNU ELPA is weaker for the org-mode packages than for all other: All GNU ELPA packages, except for org-mode, are generated by elpa.gnu.org from an elpa.git checkout (via https, not sure if Git checks the key), whereas the org-mode package is downloaded from http://orgmode.org/elpa. So the org-mode package has weaker points: - uses http rather than https. - downloaded from a machine that's further (well, not absolutely sure, but I assume that elpa.gnu.org and git.sv.gnu.org are near each other). Maybe we should consider some way to take the org packages from http://orgmode.org/elpa, and push them to elpa.git. This way even if this transfer from orgmode.org to elpa.git suffers from the same risks, the resulting patch would be sent to elpa-diffs, so it would be exposed for review (how much review it would really get is clearly debatable, tho). Stefan