Re: [pacman-dev] Signing the database again

2015-11-04 Thread Allan McRae
On 05/11/15 07:07, Remi Gacogne wrote: > Hi, > > I have been thinking about the DB signing feature recently, and I have > dug up old emails regarding this topic. If I understand correctly: > > - we would like database signing to prevent an attacker from messing > with the information contained in

Re: [pacman-dev] Signing the database again

2015-11-04 Thread Johannes Löthberg
On 04/11, Remi Gacogne wrote: - requiring TU and devs to sign the database when publishing a package is not easy and ; It shouldn't be particularly hard, someone just has to do the work on devtools to support it. - we don't want to have a package-signing key online if we can prevent it, N

[pacman-dev] Signing the database again

2015-11-04 Thread Remi Gacogne
Hi, I have been thinking about the DB signing feature recently, and I have dug up old emails regarding this topic. If I understand correctly: - we would like database signing to prevent an attacker from messing with the information contained in the database, being at rest on a mirror or in flight