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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:38:09PM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:31:24PM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Frey wrote: |
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> > Why? The patch Peter posted looked pretty straightforward. It's even simpler |
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> > than I thought it would have to be. I don't understand why it won't work. |
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> Peter has indicated that signed snapshots will not be sufficient to |
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> mitigate this risk in his eyes. He is still demanding that another |
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> solution be implemented. |
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I don't presume to speak for Peter, but I would assume that the solution he |
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posted to the list is the one he would like implemented. :-) It certainly |
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addresses the main concerns of this thread, as I see it. |
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In another post, you asked whether we expect the devs to drop everything to |
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implement the checking in emerge sync. I certainly don't expect that. Once |
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the signatures are available from the server, any user can use them and |
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write their own code to do the checks. The signature is all we need. |
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- Chris |
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