From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, 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 10:18:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mmxcrx046.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA4151A.4030605@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:22:34 +0200")
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> [...]
> 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 -
On the other hand, it forces someone to decompress an untrustworthy
file in order to check its signature. Should there ever be a security
exploit in any of these decompressors, this practice would aid
triggering it.
- FChE
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-23 14:18 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
2011-10-23 14:18 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
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