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Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?



On 11/25/05, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
> Of course, using the signature on the .changes to verify the .debs
> independent from the archive at some later date is a nice side-benefit, but
> one which suffers from the same key-lifetime issues as in-deb signatures,

What exactly is this key lifetime issue?
Is it a cryptographic issue?

> and since the .changes from autobuilt uploads aren't publically available
> (apparently d-d-$arch-changes isn't archived, from info previously posted in
> this thread) that method of package authentication isn't going to be 100%
> reliable anyway.

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