Public Git hosting - pull request in signed email
Public Git hosting - pull request in signed email
Posted Oct 28, 2011 21:16 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)In reply to: Public Git hosting - pull request in signed email by giraffedata
Parent article: KS2011: Kernel.org report
If someone can do DNS spoofing, or break in to my server, then Linus can have no guarantee that what he pulled is what I wanted him to pull. Adding the SHA1 of the commit can give him that guarantee.
The mail reader I use (clawsmail) verifies email signatures quite nicely, and will even fetch keys for me. I don't think it warns me when someone changes keys which is something I would like.
Even emacs/vm can check mail signing...
I assumed that the bits that were too cumbersome were the signing and verification built in to git-tag.
