Proposed F19 Feature: Package Signature Checking During Installation

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Jan 9 14:28:02 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:20:16PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 14:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: 
> > Yes, if you boot an installer that doesn't verify signatures, you won't 
> > verify signatures.
> 
> But then what's the difference from distrusting the contents of an
> installation image booted without SecureBoot in play?

I've no idea, I'm just pointing out that this has nothing to do with 
F18. Computers intended to run arbitrary code will run arbitrary code.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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