Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:50:24 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Package signing tools Message-ID: <3A4F71E0.BDE17A50@softweyr.com> References: <3A4EE344.E9811F06@softweyr.com> <3A4ED1C0.14061CE5@softweyr.com> <20001231003920.A24519@peorth.iteration.net> <20001231014344.T305@argon.firepipe.net> <3A4EDE33.84C7072@softweyr.com> <20001231021610.V305@argon.firepipe.net> <200012310743.eBV7hNs09212@billy-club.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <3A4EE344.E9811F06@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes:
> : You obviously didn't read the code. The signature is applied to the binary
> : package, in the gzip header. There isn't any way to attach it to a package
> : on the system, or to verify it if there were, since the data that is signed
> : is the gzipped data stream.
>
> And as such it is for more than just packages.... We don't have
> pkg_gzip now do we?
No, I think it uses libzip. Yes, this could be used to sign any gzipped file.
Hmmm...
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