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Re: Official Debian digital 'branding' of debs



Hi,
>>"Goswin" == Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

 Goswin> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
 >> Hi,
 >> >>"Rene" == Rene Mayrhofer <rmayr@vianova.at> writes:
 >> ...
 >> To compromise the security, one would have to not only have
 >> compromised the master key, one would have had to compromise the
 >> debian keyring package, which is also signed by the maintainer.

 Goswin> How would that make Deb files more secure (apart from the keyring
 Goswin> package itself?) or is the md5sum in the packages file secure enough?

        The assumption is that each package is signed by the
 maintainer (and, possibly, have the detached signature be a part of
 the .deb file itself, but, failing that, have the changes files
 preserverved until we can get dpkg hacked).

        manoj
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