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From: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
To: 47634@debbugs.gnu.org, bo0od@riseup.net, leo@famulari.name
Subject: bug#47634: Accompany .asc and .DIGESTS keys for the ISO
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 08:57:00 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8624B91E-1A4F-4455-880A-E5664C27D5B1@zancanaro.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6171b07-515f-58e2-2cff-e6dbd721656b@riseup.net>



On 9 April 2021 3:34:20 am AEST, bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net> wrote:
>This is nicely written by Qubes documentation:
>
>https://www.qubes-os.org/security/verifying-signatures/

From that page:

> If you’ve already verified the signatures on the ISO directly, then verifying digests is not necessary.

Which implies that the signatures are sufficient, right?

What is the benefit to providing the key (.asc) and hashes (.DIGESTS)? The page you linked provides rationale for providing and checking digital signatures, but we already provide them.

Carlo




  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-08 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-07  5:42 bug#47634: Accompany .asc and .DIGESTS keys for the ISO bo0od
2021-04-08 17:03 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-08 17:34   ` bo0od
2021-04-08 22:57     ` Carlo Zancanaro [this message]
2021-04-09 22:17       ` bo0od
2021-04-10  2:27         ` Carlo Zancanaro
2021-04-10 21:24           ` bo0od
2021-04-18 10:40           ` Ludovic Courtès

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