GPG verification in SPECs

Konstantin Ryabitsev icon at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 11 14:02:04 UTC 2013


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Konstantin Ryabitsev
<icon at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Or does the check fail only if the key had already expired when the
>> signature was made?
>
> Looks like gpg verify doesn't take that into consideration.

PS: And, FYI, for a very good reason -- it is very simple for an
attacker to change the date on their system before signing a tarball,
to make it look like the signature was made while the key was still
valid and thus satisfy the checks.

-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
LinuxFoundation.org
Montréal, Québec


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