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Trust and mirrors

Trust and mirrors

Posted Jul 18, 2008 0:33 UTC (Fri) by jgsack@san.rr.com (guest, #33287)
Parent article: Trust and mirrors

Glancing at the article referenced, I didn't see any mention of another concern I have long
had. How can I be sure _I_ have not indadvertently accepted a bogus signature key.

Is there some kind of survey tool to validate the keys for all installed packages -- that is
verify that they are valid keys known to (trusted by) the distributor?

I sort-of remember accepting unknown keys, not paying attention to keys, or (not sure)
accepting unsigned packages if that is possible. 

I guess I'm saying that I don't trust myself to have always done the correct thing, so how do
I audit for this risk? ;-)

..j


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