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Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress



On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:42:38PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Against what? The source is only downloaded from upstream once per
> > upstream release, what is there to check against?
> 
> Upstream VCS, previous releases (when the diff is small enough), request
> that upstream publish in an email message the sha1sum or sha256sum when they
> announce a new release, etc.

A good part of upstreams use git, let's educate them about signed tags.

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