From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Whose keys go on elpa/gnupg/pubring.gpg? Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:20:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420727460 2422 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2015 14:31:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 14:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 08 15:30:52 2015 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 1Y9Dx8-0004ef-GY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:20:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9Dx7-0004H3-BE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:20:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9Dwo-0004Em-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:20:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9Dwl-0008Cj-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:20:26 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:43692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9Dwl-0008CR-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:20:23 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t08EKLF8004058; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 234061F56; Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:20:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kelly Dean's message of "Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:40:28 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5180=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5180> : inlines <1730> : streams <1370074> : uri <1841705> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:181058 Archived-At: >>> In that case, where do individual package maintainers' keys go? >> Nowhere: the signatures only certify that this is the file that was >> created on elpa.gnu.org. > That's only the case if elpa.gnu.org is the only repository whose key is on > the keyring, since package-refresh-contents trusts any repository's key on > the keyring to sign any other repository's archive-contents file. Again, > technically not a vulnerability, but still not good. That's right, except for one nitpick: the signatures themselves do certify that this file was created on elpa.gnu.org. It's only the package.el signature-checking which doesn't bother to check that the signature is made with the repository's corresponding key. Stefan