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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Joseph Parmelee <jparmele@wildbear.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lack of detached signatures
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:07:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMOZ1Bs2HW6e3V6sayVSm0NhC=0e5129ZR8YSGuZPnJw9H9TEA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vty7xttxh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 00:03, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Joseph Parmelee <jparmele@wildbear.com> writes:
>
>> Under the present circumstances, and particularly considering the
>> sensitivity of the git code itself, I would suggest that you implement
>> signed detached digital signatures on all release tarballs.
>
> Well, signed tags are essentially detached signatures. People can verify
> tarballs against them if they wanted to, although it is a bit cumbersome.

Aren't tarballs used to get git on machines that don't yet have git?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27 23:48 Lack of detached signatures Joseph Parmelee
2011-09-28  0:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-28  0:07   ` Michael Witten [this message]
2011-09-28  4:17     ` Olsen, Alan R
2011-09-28  7:41       ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-09-28 12:36         ` Joseph Parmelee
2011-09-28 16:45           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-28 16:55             ` Michael Witten
2011-09-28 16:59             ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-28 22:25             ` Jeff King
2011-09-28 23:09               ` Ted Ts'o
2011-09-29  0:28                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29  1:59                   ` Ted Ts'o
2011-09-29  3:50                     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-29 13:18                       ` Ted Ts'o
2011-09-29 14:40                         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-29 14:50                           ` Ted Ts'o
2011-09-29 14:52                             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-29 16:47                         ` Joseph Parmelee
2011-09-29  1:29                 ` Joseph Parmelee
2011-09-29  1:41                 ` Jeff King
2011-09-29 20:31                 ` Olsen, Alan R
2011-09-28 22:40             ` Joseph Parmelee
2011-09-28 17:03       ` Ben Walton

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