Secrecy and user trust

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 01:22:51 UTC 2008


Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> What's the point of having the key at all if you implicitly trust the
>> delivery mechanism of the RPM packages?
> Good approach, answer a question with another question.
> 

If you can't say why you need the key in the first place, there isn't 
much hope of seeing why you need a different reason to trust the key 
than the content it verifies.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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