Package XYZ is not signed

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Sun Oct 28 20:49:37 UTC 2007


Hi.

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:40:25 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote

> A malicious package that gets placed into the system by a maintainer
> would come flying down into your system 'signed' by an autosign
> process too... and you'd happily not notice.

Yes. That waoy I'd have to trust the maintainer and our build system.

As it stands now, I have to trust the maintainer, the build system and
the rest of the internet.

Which is rather a lot of trust.




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