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On Thursday 08 January 2004 08:12, John Nilsson wrote: |
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> > Uh, how silly. Either you trust someone with the whole tree or you |
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> > don't trust them at all. |
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> Why not build something around a "web of trust" with pgp signatures? |
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> Have an open tree where people could submit anything that passed |
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> autotests. All submisions would be signed. Signed content could only |
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> get updated buy user with same signature or dev with higher trust for |
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> that area. |
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This does not help at all for initial submissions. It allows anyone who |
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knows how to create a pgp key to get something in the tree. However if |
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you make some nuances to this idea, I think it could be workable. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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