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Re: Lack of detached signatures

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 29, 2011, 03:50 UTC
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Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
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>> That would improve the situation (I suspect that there
>> were some people who misunderstood that these GPG signature were to
>> protect against break-in at the master machine), but at the same time, it
>> may create the chicken-and-egg bootstrapping problem if public keys of too
>> many people need to be published securely.
>
> We are in the process of bootstrapping a GPG web of trust.  Linus has
> generated a new GPG key which has been signed by Peter Anvin, Dirk,
> and myself.  We'll get a much richer set of cross signatures at the
> Kernel Summit in Prague in a few months.

I was actually more worried about helping consumers convince themselves that thusly signed keys indeed belong to producers like Linus, Peter, etc. There are those who worry that DNS record to code.google.com/ for them may point at an evil place to give them rogue download material. "Here are the keys you can verify our trees with" message on the mailing list, even with the message is signed with GPG, would not be satisfactory to them.

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Message 14 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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