On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:30:39 -0400
davidsen(a)tmr.com (Bill Davidsen) wrote:
Anders Karlsson wrote:
> * Travis Arnold <vestwearingpunk(a)gmail.com> [20080902 22:52]:
> [drivel snipped]
>> Hey I am currently downloading the ISO dvd to install after I
>> finish my day's lessons, is this not a good idea to do?
>
> The word from the Fedora folks on Aug 14th was - don't update until
> further notice. Since then, they have - IIRC - said it's safe to do
> so. The ISO's should be safe, as well as the packages that you can
> update to from the servers.
>
> New updates should start rolling once they have resigned everything.
>
Distributing that will be quite slow, since they need to (a)
validate, then (b) sign, then (c) distribute out-of-band to mirrors,
Well, depends on what you mean by quite slow, but yes, doing all the
re-signing is taking a while right now. Distribution to mirrors will be
the next bottleneck.
and then hardest of all find a secure way to provide the public part
of the signing key. Obviously you don't risk letting someone slip in
a bogus NEW fake key and go around on this again.
Indeed.
The proposed plan (that has since had a few modifications):
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2008-August/001627.html
Suggestion: since the livna key is still secure (AFAIK) let them
distribute the new Fedora key and sign the RPM.
That was suggested before, but it's not a great solution for several
reasons: Not everyone has livna enabled. Having one repo publish keys
for another seems wrong, especially when they are not officially
connected.
kevin