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Re: [RFC] Enhance checksum support



On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:14:56PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> The whole thing honestly doesn't do much for security anyway until the gpg
> support of dpkg-source is largely improved. For that I have no real concept 
> yet, though.

Well, apt verifies them when it downloads the source before passing
it to dpkg to unpack; and there's also verification when entering the
archive in the first place, and manual verification at other times (eg,
when the archive gets compromised).

Cheers,
aj

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