Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ryan Phillips <rphillips@g.o>
To: Spider <spider@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-core@g.o, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] on the matter of security and cryptography
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 20:00:38
Message-Id: 20020804180006.1f6befac.rphillips@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] on the matter of security and cryptography by Spider
1 On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:55:31 +0200
2 Spider <spider@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Well, I was browsing around the other day checking into the "behind the
5 > scenes" work of gnupg and keyservers when I stumbled on this link..
6 >
7 >
8 > http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/strong_distro.html
9 >
10
11 I did forget to mention that the developer keys wouldn't be use to anyone
12 if they were compromised... The developer keys are checked to make sure they
13 have a master signature. As long as the master signing key is safe, then
14 there shouldn't be any worries.
15
16 -ryan