On 07-12-16 11:44, Bennett Piater wrote:
On 12/07/2016 11:17 AM, Gregory Mullen wrote:
If the argument left is, I don't want (better checksum) because it's
shouldn't be thought of as a security check, and I want a security check.

Why can't the requirement be PGP sig's are now required, and we drop the
checksum completely?

Won't work because many upstreams don't provide signatures.
Maybe giving a warning ("source authenticity was not verified due to
lack of GPG signature") would work?


I vote to rename all *sums fields in PKGBUILD to :

this_is_just_a_checksum_and_does_no_authentication_at_all-xyzsums

Would it be possible to focus all this energy on ideas to make things safer instead of wrongly treating checksums as a security feature ?

LW

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