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Re: Lack of detached signatures

From
Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date
Sep 28, 2011, 23:09 UTC
Message-ID
<20110928230958.GJ19250@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To
<20110928222542.GA18120@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:25:43PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> [1] This is a minor nit, and probably not worth breaking away from the
> way the rest of the world does it, but it is somewhat silly to sign the
> compressed data. I couldn't care less about the exact bytes in the
> compressed version; what I care about is the actual tar file. The
> compression is just a transport.

The worry I have is that many users don't check the GPG checksum files as it is. If they have to decompress the file, and then run gpg to check the checksum, they might never get around to doing it.

That being said, I'm not sure I have a good solution. One is to ship the file without using detached signatures, and ship a foo.tar.gz.gpg file, and force them to use GPG to unwrap the file before it can be unpacked. But users would yell and scream if we did that...

	       	     	   	    	   - Ted
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Message 11 of 24 in “Lack of detached signatures”
  1. Joseph ParmeleeSep 27, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2011
  3. Michael WittenSep 28, 2011
  4. Olsen, Alan RSep 28, 2011
  5. Carlos Martín NietoSep 28, 2011
  6. Joseph ParmeleeSep 28, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2011
  8. Michael WittenSep 28, 2011
  9. Matthieu MoySep 28, 2011
  10. Jeff KingSep 28, 2011
  11. Ted Ts'oSep 28, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2011
  13. Ted Ts'oSep 29, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2011
  15. Ted Ts'oSep 29, 2011
  16. Sverre RabbelierSep 29, 2011
  17. Ted Ts'oSep 29, 2011
  18. Sverre RabbelierSep 29, 2011
  19. Joseph ParmeleeSep 29, 2011
  20. Joseph ParmeleeSep 29, 2011
  21. Jeff KingSep 29, 2011
  22. Olsen, Alan RSep 29, 2011
  23. Joseph ParmeleeSep 28, 2011
  24. Ben WaltonSep 28, 2011

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