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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 48146@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48146: Getting diverted to non-updated branches: a limitation of the authentication mechanism?
Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 00:09:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YI4mDjRZGFfLEzja@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3c137f53eb256d43267e2358874bd25e4686e32.camel@telenet.be>

On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 11:40:01PM +0200, Maxime Devos wrote:
> Tags: + security
> 
> Hi guix,
> 
> Consider the following situation:

Check this blog post and The Update Framework's concept of "indefinite
freeze attacks", which I think is what you are describing:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/securing-updates/
https://theupdateframework.io/ (check the "specification")




  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-02  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-01 21:40 bug#48146: Getting diverted to non-updated branches: a limitation of the authentication mechanism? Maxime Devos
2021-05-02  4:09 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-05-05 20:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-06  8:19   ` Maxime Devos

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