On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> I do agree; in fact, I'm not the one suggesting to eg. pinning CA 
> certificates.
> 
> What I'm saying is that it's far more important to fix HTTPS in PyPI than to 
> verify GPG signatures. So when I hear the argument "if we just verify GPG 
> signatures, that would be enough", I must disagree and explain why it's not 
> true.
Good. Simplying pinning a non browser trusted cert isn't good enough because a 
browser is an
avenue for a MITM too, so we need to secure all the possible egress and ingress 
points. Once
we have a system where we are reasonably secure when we assume PyPI is still a 
good
faith actor we can then worry about solving the much harder problems. 

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