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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: bug#30143: UX: print warning if substitute server is not authorized
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 07:50:02 +0100
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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> Suppose I add example.com as a substitute server by passing
>> “--substitute-urls=https://example.com” to the daemon or the Guix
>> command line.  I haven’t authorized the signing key, so Guix won’t
>> accept any of the substitutes from example.com.
>>
>> Currently, Guix does not make it obvious to the user that a requested
>> substitute server is ignored because its key is not authorized.  We
>> should print a clear warning in this case.
>>
>> (guix scripts authenticate) already includes “validate-signature”, which
>> aborts with an error if the key is not authorized, but we don’t seem to
>> use it.
>
> What if example.com serves substitutes that are signed by another
> server, such as hydra.gnu.org?  No matter where a substitute comes from,
> if it was signed with an authorized key and its signature checks out,
> then it's OK to use, right?

Correct.

-- 
Ricardo