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Andreas Waschbuesch wrote: |
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> I could open some - as ist seems - "usefull" sourceforge-project and |
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> inject any "additional" code on gentoo systems, while submitting a |
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> perfectly "legal" ebuild, signed to "heavenly" trust. |
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The point is that if we implement signing, a user can say, ``Well, I |
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distrust the authors of this sourceforge project'' if they wish. But if |
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we do not, they may trust the authors and yet still not be able to trust |
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the source. |
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So the reasonable, expected behavior from portage is that the source |
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downloaded is the source it claims to be. If we do not trust the |
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original source, we needn't install the package, but if we do, we should |
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be able to trust the package implicity. Right now, we cannot trust the |
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package, even if we trust the original authors. Signing fixes this problem. |
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Again, this is like saying that since we have not had the NSA conduct |
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background checks on each and every open source developer, we should not |
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trust their products. Well, fine, then don't install them. But if you |
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decide you trust the folks at kernel.org, or KDE, or GAIM, or whatever, |
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you should be able to trust the vanilla-sources ebuild, or the kde |
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ebuild, or the gaim ebuild. Right now, you cannot. So even when one does |
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choose to trust upstream, he cannot trust portage. That is broken. |
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Dan "KrispyKringle" Margolis |
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Security Coordinator/Audit Project, Gentoo Linux |
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