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Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files



On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 11:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: 
> snapshot is a read-only (modulo cosmic rays and removal of
> non-redistributable things) historical record, files in it will not be
> modified to re-sign with newer keys nor to update Valid-Until.
So what would you do now, when one of the past keys was compromised or
got simply too weak to be trustworthy anymore? This would mean that
stuff shipped by snapshot.d.o is no longer secure (in the sense of
preventing MitM during the download, not in the sense that the package
themselves would be secured otherwise).

Actually, having another APT key for just snapshot.d.o sounds somehow
appealing to me from a design POV.


Cheers,
Chris.

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