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Re: Lack of detached signatures

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Sep 28, 2011, 16:59 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> The world is not so blank-and-white. Trust is ultimately among humans. If
> this message is not from the real Junio, don't you think you will hear
> something like "No, that c6ba05... is forgery, please don't use it!" from
> him, when he finds this message on the Git mailing list?  If he does not
> exercise diligence to even do that much, does he deserve your trust in the
> first place?

This assumes you will see the message, so while it does solve simple attacks like sending an email with a fake From: header to the actual list, it does not solve more advanced attacks like compromising kernel.org's mailing-list server to avoid delivering you the forged email.

I know I'm being a little paranoid here, but given the recent events with kernel.org, maybe we should be that paranoid :-(.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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Message 9 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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