From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>,
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>,
32674@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#32674] [PATCH 0/1] Use gpgv and keybox files for 'guix refresh' & co.
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 23:02:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3c1dulv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180913162904.GA11458@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:29:04 -0400")
Hello,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 10:43:35PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello Guix,
>>
>> (Cc’ing people with expertise and interest in this…)
>>
>> This patch changes (guix gnupg) so that it uses keyrings in the “keybox”
>> file format to store and read upstream public keys (instead of using the
>> user’s default keyring), and so that it uses ‘gpgv --keyring’ instead
>> of ‘gpg --verify’.
>>
>> ‘gpgv’ is specifically designed for use cases like software signature
>> verification against a keyring of “trusted keys” (it’s used by APT and
>> Werner Koch recommends it¹.) A significant difference compared to
>> ‘gpg --verify’ is that it doesn’t check whether keys are expired or
>> revoked; all that matters is whether the signature is valid and whether
>> the signing key is in the specified keyring. I think that’s what we
>> want when checking the signature of a tarball or Git commit.
>
> Great, this is a big improvement. It would be awesome if we could get
> similar support in Git (or find another way to authenticate our code).
Yes, that was partly the motivation for this change.
Pushed as b9e1fddfd8c29b2fa6252ef52a75daa14aaabd3e.
Thanks Mike & Leo for your feedback!
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-16 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-09 20:43 [bug#32674] [PATCH 0/1] Use gpgv and keybox files for 'guix refresh' & co Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-09 20:46 ` [bug#32674] [PATCH 1/1] gnupg: Use 'gpgv' and keybox files; adjust 'guix refresh' accordingly Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-10 1:55 ` [bug#32674] [PATCH 0/1] Use gpgv and keybox files for 'guix refresh' & co Mike Gerwitz
2018-09-13 16:29 ` Leo Famulari
2018-09-16 21:02 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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