From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 27437@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27437: Source downloader accepts X.509 certificate for incorrect domain
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 09:29:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuer9n6d.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170623032401.GA13366@jasmine.lan>
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:45:26PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>>
>> > FWIW, I always check digital signatures when they're available, and I
>> > hope that others will as well, but in practice we are putting our faith
>> > in a large number of contributors, some of whom might not be so careful.
>>
>> I do the same when signatures are available. I couldn’t find this
>> recommendation in “contributing.texi” — should we add it there?
>
> To me, it seems that the manual section Packaging Guidelines is a better
> fit.
>
> But, we tend to recommend people read Contributing, but rarely do I see
> Packaging Guidelines recommended. I suppose it's assumed they will find
> it themselves.
“Packaging Guidelines” refers to “Contributing”. I tried to add this to
“Packaging Guidelines” but couldn’t find an appropriate place, so here’s
a patch that adds an item to the checklist in “Contributing”.
WDYT?
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From 44b8f1c04713d11601d964ecfbe2fc248a15e7c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 09:24:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Encourage signature verification.
* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Remind contributors to verify
cryptographic signatures.
---
doc/contributing.texi | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 925c584e4..0073f2451 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -334,6 +334,12 @@ updates for a given software package in a single place and have them
affect the whole system---something that bundled copies prevent.
@item
+If the authors of the packaged software provide a cryptographic
+signature for the release tarball, make an effort to verify the
+authenticity of the archive. For a detached GPG signature file this
+would be done with the @code{gpg --verify} command.
+
+@item
Take a look at the profile reported by @command{guix size}
(@pxref{Invoking guix size}). This will allow you to notice references
to other packages unwillingly retained. It may also help determine
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Ricardo
GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC
https://elephly.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-23 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-21 6:17 bug#27437: Source downloader accepts X.509 certificate for incorrect domain Leo Famulari
2017-06-21 10:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-22 4:09 ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-22 7:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-22 16:16 ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-22 15:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-22 16:11 ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-22 19:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-23 0:45 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-06-23 9:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-22 21:30 ` ng0
2017-06-22 21:45 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-22 22:32 ` Marius Bakke
2017-06-23 3:24 ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-23 7:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-07-27 12:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-27 19:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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