From: Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Whose keys go on elpa/gnupg/pubring.gpg?
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:40:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqbYT7BK5GTMo1fduk7qAYN5O0Z33L7BSA6tLXS5Nh2@local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviogh7tpf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> 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.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-08 3:36 Whose keys go on elpa/gnupg/pubring.gpg? Kelly Dean
2015-01-08 5:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-08 6:40 ` Kelly Dean [this message]
2015-01-08 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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