From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel.org frontpage
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:36:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E381F47.8060200@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E3819CB.2090409@zytor.com
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:52:43 PST, "H. Peter Anvin" said:
>>
>>> No, it would add absolutely nothing (other than clutter.) All the
>>> .sign files are good for is to check for rogue mirrors.
>>
>> Or a rogue *primary* site, as has already happened to OpenSSH and
>> Sendmail.
>
> NO!
>
> THE SIGN FILES DO NOT VERIFY AGAINST A COMPROMISED KERNEL.ORG MASTER SITE.
Perhaps for the truly paranoid the signatures should be posted to this
newsgroup and digitally signed by someone trusted.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-29 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-29 5:40 kernel.org frontpage H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-29 9:47 ` John Bradford
2003-01-29 9:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-29 15:09 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-29 18:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-29 18:36 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-01-29 18:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-29 19:37 ` Russell King
2003-01-29 19:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-29 19:14 ` John Bradford
2003-01-29 19:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-29 19:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-30 10:55 ` Hans Reiser
2003-01-29 19:54 ` John Bradford
2003-01-29 19:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-29 19:58 ` John Bradford
2003-01-30 20:42 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-01-30 20:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-30 20:50 ` John Bradford
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[not found] ` <200301291509.h0TF9S4K003537@turing-police.cc.vt.edu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
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2003-01-29 18:55 ` Andi Kleen
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