Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:33:50 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@uol.com.br>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package signing tools Message-ID: <20010102163349.A18885@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <20010102050351.C18277@citusc.usc.edu>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:03:51AM -0800 References: <3A4ED1C0.14061CE5@softweyr.com> <20001231003920.A24519@peorth.iteration.net> <3A4EDCA9.5CEA7114@softweyr.com> <20010101083459.B12422@citusc.usc.edu> <20010101143803.A3416@Fedaykin.here> <3A50C6A8.3E02FAE@softweyr.com> <20010101161001.B3416@Fedaykin.here> <3A50D2B7.5AD86D9E@softweyr.com> <20010102050351.C18277@citusc.usc.edu>
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On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:03:51AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > We need to think about how this is going to be used by the project, > too. Packages are built automatically, so they'd need to be signed > automatically. That puts the signing machine(s) in a (more) dangerous Not necessarily. Though if done after the building phase, there is a race that someone breaks into the machine and changes packages before they are signed. But such a race alwaysn exists.. But then again...what exactly does the signing do. IMO signing means that the package originated from the FreeBSD project and was not altered after release. -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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