Web of trust
Posted Apr 20, 2009 8:37 UTC (Mon) by
forthy (guest, #1525)
Parent article:
Attacks on package managers
There's one missing piece here when signing packets, it's verifying the
signature. I'm using OpenSuSE and several community repos, and all of them
are signed (which is good). However, the keys themselves are not signed,
and there's no obvious way to verify them; sometimes, the keys of a
repository just change without explaining why. Please, SuSE guys, keys
without a web of trust are of limited use - it can't be so difficult to
get all those community repos maintainer together to a key signing party,
e.g. on Linuxtag.
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