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On Thursday 25 March 2004 17:08, Koon wrote: |
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> We are not trying to discuss ways of having the most secure Linux |
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> distribution out there, review all sources, treat the rogue developer |
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> problem ; we are trying to have a secure distribution mecanism which |
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> does not depend on outside factors. For the moment we don't have that. |
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> Once this is done, it will always be time to discuss better mecanisms to |
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> ensure better security. You will probably find in the end that the |
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> increased-security/work-overhead tradeoff to solve the rogue dev case is |
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> not acceptable. |
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> So for for me the only objective is : |
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> * protect against compromised rsync server |
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Why? There are more gentoo developers than rsync servers. Their machines do |
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more than rsync servers. What reason is there to believe that a compromise of |
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an rsync server is more likely than compromise of a developer machine? |
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