>On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:36 AM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote:
> >On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:09:27 BST, Mario Vilas said:
>>
>> >Just signing the update packages prevents this attack, so it's not that hard
>>> to fix.
>>
>> Except if a signing key gets compromised, as happened to one Linux vendor
>> recently, causing a lot of kerfluffle...
>??? Are you ptoposing to throw the baby out with the bath water ??? I
>would not have expected that from *.edu.
I do not believe anyone is 'ptoposing' anything. All he said was that package
signing should not be taken as a silver bullet, for experience has shown that
the key's themselves are capable of being compromised if a vendor is
successfully attacked.
Exactly what I would expect from *.edu
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