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Re: upstream source code authenticity checking
From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des () des no>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:25:04 +0200
Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com> writes:
This makes no sense. So you don't trust their signature because they have to "earn trust", but you do trust their software and you compile and run it? That's literally insane.
This is exactly the logic used by web browsers to justify scaring users away from https sites that haven't payed the Verisign tax... DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des () des no
Current thread:
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking, (continued)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Allan McRae (Apr 21)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Alistair Crooks (Apr 21)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Stuart Henderson (Apr 22)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Allan McRae (Apr 21)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Eric H. Christensen (Apr 24)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Alistair Crooks (Apr 24)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Allan McRae (Apr 24)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Kurt Seifried (Apr 25)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Daniel Kahn Gillmor (Apr 25)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Alistair Crooks (Apr 25)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Kurt Seifried (Apr 25)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Dag-Erling Smørgrav (Apr 26)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Kurt Seifried (Apr 26)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Dag-Erling Smørgrav (Apr 26)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Alistair Crooks (Apr 24)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Alistair Crooks (Apr 26)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Kurt Seifried (Apr 26)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Eric H. Christensen (Apr 29)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Daniel Kahn Gillmor (Apr 30)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Robbie MacKay (May 01)
- Re: upstream source code authenticity checking Alistair Crooks (May 02)
- OpenPGP certifications are identity assertions [was: Re: upstream source code authenticity checking] Daniel Kahn Gillmor (May 02)
- Re: OpenPGP certifications are identity assertions [was: Re: upstream source code authenticity checking] Simon McVittie (May 02)