From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Piotr Hosowicz <piotr@hosowicz.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Hawley <warthog19@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.7 now on kernel.org
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:22:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA4151A.4030605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111023122927.GB25711@kroah.com>
On 10/23/2011 02:29 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>> On 23.10.2011 10:31, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>> You will note that the files are signed with my new kernel release
>>> signing key, and that the .tar file is signed, and then compressed, so
>>> there is not signatures for the individual compressed files.
>>
>> And why is that? It's less handy.
>
> I'll let hpa answer that one, he changed it for a good reason that I
> can't recall at the moment :)
>
> hpa?
>
Signing the compressed file makes the compression "precious". It also
means that the developer has to sign each.
It's not significantly "more handy" either... you can do something like:
xz -cd file.xz | gpg --verify file.sign -
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-23 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-23 8:31 Linux 3.0.7 now on kernel.org Greg KH
2011-10-23 12:24 ` Piotr Hosowicz
2011-10-23 12:29 ` Greg KH
2011-10-23 13:22 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-10-23 14:18 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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