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Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion



Hi,

Werner Koch:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:26:02 +0100, Matthias Urlichs said:
> > the local side is supposed to sign should probably be encrypted with the
> > signer's public key, otherwise I can just replace the data packet with
> > something that ends up signing a totally different file. :-/
> 
> And if I do that, I could also sign the file right at the remote
> machine because the (or some) signature key must be available over
> there ;-)
> 
Ouch. You're obviously right. :-/

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