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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Securing the software distribution chain
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:01:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200825100100.GC979@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blj02jrt.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 04:36:22PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Justus Winter <teythoon@avior.uberspace.de> skribis:
> 
> > Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> We can introduce signature verification in (guix download): every time
> code is downloaded and signature metadata is available, we verify its
> signature.  Unfortunately, I’m afraid this is likely to lead to lots of
> false positives, and in particular failure to retrieve the OpenPGP key.
> 
> WDYT?  Where would you integrate that?
> 

Debian does sometimes add a public gpg key or the tarball signature
inside their debian folder. Not exactly sure how that would map for us
though.

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-25 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-23 11:07 Securing the software distribution chain Justus Winter
2020-07-27 12:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-27 18:13   ` zimoun
2020-07-31  9:20   ` Justus Winter
2020-08-24 14:36     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-25 10:01       ` Efraim Flashner [this message]

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