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From: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item review: SquashDelta syncing support
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 20:48:11
Message-Id: CAOazyz2VwQY+jRvXtZwrPC4Ov14+ukQvNMhFYRNmQeQpuXGepg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] News item review: SquashDelta syncing support by "Michał Górny"
1 On 15 May 2015 at 17:51, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > Please note that the current syncing code does not verify the OpenPGP
3 > signature to confirm the authenticity of fetched snapshots and deltas.
4 > This feature will be added as soon as gentoo-keys support in Portage is
5 > available.
6
7 These are great news!
8 We can retire the webrsync.
9 Why not sign it similar to the portage snapshot are signed for now?
10 The webrsync signature validation is quite simple.
11
12 Just a reminder: please note the rollback prevention mechanism in
13 webrsync, it is not enough to check signature, but also prevent older
14 snapshot to be used.
15
16 Regards,
17 Alon

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Re: [gentoo-dev] News item review: SquashDelta syncing support "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>