Re: is melpa just unsigned?

[Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>]

Samuel Wales [2023-05-22 Mon 19:53] wrote:

> of course i am aware signing is only part of ensuring security,
> and melpa does curating, and authors or computers could turn evil, but
> where there is a chain that reliably goes back to an author from the
> code you dled, it's a pretty good feeling.

Not a security expert but signing helps with downloading files from
questionable hosting (usually you download the signature from the same
website, thus you solve nothing). You can skip the middleman melpa.org
and install packages directly from their respective forges, e.g. github,
gitlab, sourcehut using either something like quelpa or built-in
package-vc-install.

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Daniel Fleischer