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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:24:18 +0200
From:      William Fletcher <ultraviolet@epweb.co.za>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cryptographically enabled ports tree.
Message-ID:  <20030623072418.GF18653@tulip.epweb.co.za>
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Hi, again.=20

No use signing if cvsup is a mess.
We need cvsup-ssl, Then, all the big security guys need to do=20
is provide a public key for the cvsup-mirrors, which then get
the public key for the big cvsup server, etc.=20

That way, cvsup is secure, and we can trust it.

Then, we just get all the ports maintainers to provide public keys
and then we can download the distfiles from ftp\http and know
they're trusted.=20

On the other hand, this means that we don't really need signed=20
distfiles, the md5 checksum should do just fine, because we know
that we're getting our ports tree from a trusted source.

Thats just how I see it. Please, Please stop me if I'm wrong.=20

Please correct me if I misunderstood all the e-mails in this thread too.  =
=20

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William Fletcher (ultraviolet)		      Powered by http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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Tel: +27 (041) 395 6800					 =20
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Support: support@epweb.co.za

For countless days, We walked alone, Directionless and vunerable, Sitting t=
argets wearing smiles.
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