Re: Cryptic messages from installers
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On 20010419T170915+0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On 18 Apr 2001, James Troup wrote:
> > > making broken assumptions based on random things like the signature on
> > > the file.
> >
> > "A gpg signature is a random thing" --Debian gnupg maintainer.
> >
> > Great quote! :-)
>
> Except that it's not a quote (don't agree with me? show me where he
> used those exact words).
Of course it is not a quote, hence the ":-)".
But this does not change what he said:
"[...] based on random things like the signature on the file."
Being a gpg signature the deliberate and internally consistent thing
it is, the only context I can think of it to be "random" is the
statistical distribution of the characters in its base64 enconding.
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