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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Signing everything, for fun and for profit
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:22:25
Message-Id: 20060519192623.2899814b@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Signing everything, for fun and for profit by Peter
1 On Fri, 19 May 2006 12:28:04 -0400
2 Peter <pete4abw@×××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > Who signs the Manifests? Why are some unsigned? Is there a single
5 > Gentoo Security Key (like I know Slackware has and some other distros
6 > to ensure the authenticity of their files)?
7
8 Because the whole signing stuff isn't official, there has been a
9 (partial) implementation plan a few years back, some people started to
10 use it but is has never become official, the implementation is
11 incomplete and there it can't and won't be enforced yet.
12
13 Marius
14
15 --
16 Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub
17
18 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
19 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Signing everything, for fun and for profit Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>