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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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  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
     [not found] <200301290947.h0T9lKa9000750@darkstar.example.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <3E37A46B.4080907@zytor.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <200301291509.h0TF9S4K003537@turing-police.cc.vt.edu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]     ` <3E3819CB.2090409@zytor.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]       ` <3E381F47.8060200@nortelnetworks.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-01-29 18:55         ` Andi Kleen

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