From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Adam Majer <amajer@suse.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Release signatures
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 09:51:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7j33g6y.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3fd556d-c346-7af9-a7a2-13b0f3235071@suse.de>
Adam Majer <amajer@suse.de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> The releases are signed in a funny way. The .asc file are not detached
> signatures of the checksum, but actually contain it inside the .asc file.
>
> # gpg -v --verify notmuch-0.28.1.tar.gz.sha256.asc
> ...
> gpg: binary signature, digest algorithm SHA256, key algorithm rsa3072
> gpg: WARNING: not a detached signature; file
> 'notmuch-0.28.1.tar.gz.sha256' was NOT verified!
>
> A much better way of signing this would have been as a detached
> signature of the tarball itself. Why sign a hash of a hash? ;)
I'm not sure why Carl did it that way 10 years ago. Perhaps Carl
remembers? Offhand, I don't see any reason not to go with a more
standard detached signature, other than it needs someone to do the
relevant work.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-10 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-06 10:48 Release signatures Adam Majer
2019-02-10 13:51 ` David Bremner [this message]
2019-02-11 23:37 ` Carl Worth
2019-02-13 2:17 ` [PATCH] build: sign tarball instead of sha256sum David Bremner
2019-03-12 10:55 ` David Bremner
2019-03-14 22:51 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-15 1:49 ` David Bremner
2019-03-15 8:48 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-15 1:53 ` Adam Majer
2019-03-15 8:58 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-15 10:49 ` David Bremner
2019-03-15 13:47 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-15 13:56 ` David Bremner
2019-03-15 14:50 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-15 14:30 ` Adam Majer
2019-03-15 16:48 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-23 11:21 ` [PATCH] build: distribute signed sha256sums Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-23 12:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] build: ensure that SHA256_FILE is built Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-23 12:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] build: distribute signed sha256sums Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-23 12:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] build: Rename GPG_FILE to DETACHED_SIG_FILE Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-27 21:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] build: ensure that SHA256_FILE is built David Bremner
2019-03-15 11:35 ` [PATCH] build: sign tarball instead of sha256sum Adam Majer
2019-03-15 13:37 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-03-15 14:18 ` Adam Majer
2019-03-15 13:50 ` David Bremner
2019-03-15 15:35 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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