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Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification



* Matt Zimmerman:

> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 08:10:36AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> A few packages contain "software" (well, everything's software these
>> days) which is cryptographically protected against modification.  This
>> seems to violate DFSG ?3.
>> 
>> Such packages include:
>> 
>>   - apt (in experimental, can be fixed)
>
> What the hell are you talking about?

The self-signatures on the public keys which are shipped as part of
apt prevent modification of the user IDs.

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