signed tarballs

Christian Rebischke Chris.Rebischke at archlinux.org
Fri Apr 14 23:03:18 UTC 2017


On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 09:38:51AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> As I said in a subsequent email, "we'll go with hashes now and 
> work up to signing another day." But I really am serious that the biggest 
> threat to the project is not some wild eyed MITM attack targeting a whole 
> distribution. Its me. I doubt few people truly understand the impact of the 
> bug that Laurent reported and why it moved me to change plans and do a quick 
> release. (It was not because ausearch was segfaulting.) Again, I call for more 
> testing and bug reports. I know they are in the code. I find a couple every 
> day or two.

Yep, the first factor is the code. But keep in mind that signing
tarballs are just 5 minutes of work per release. I see no reason why
audit shouldn't do it, all other redhat projects do it too.



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