Re: The Debian Mentors Project
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:41:40PM -0600, Jack Moffitt wrote:
> Ivo Marino wrote:
> > Of course we can't actually ensure that all uploaded packages on the
> > system are secure, for now we trust the testers of the system but in
> > future we'll introduce higher security standards.
> >
> > If someone can allready point out an eventual solution for this problem
> > we'll open to consider any suggestion in order to improve the system.
>
> Perhaps an easy thing to do would just be to show whether or not a
> pckage is signed by a key which is signed by a real debian developer.
> Ie, use the web of trust. Then at least one can be reasonable sure that
> the maintainer is real.
Surely getting that signature is the whole point of the system in the
first place?
I'd be half-inclined to make the download password-protected; anyone can
get a valid password just by asking, but the expectation is that only
developers should be downloading the packages, and this discourages
people from shoving it into apt lines.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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