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Re: Not switching to RPM, don't worry!

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> 	Open development model - I doubt any of the commercial companies
> 	would go for this, so we keep this advantage unless we someday
> 	decide to close. The only reason we'd do that would be if we had
> 	some horrendous security problem, so let's take steps now to make
> 	sure that doesn't happen.

A few weeks ago I posted a proposal for PGP signing the packages,
(with the same ideas that were in a message by Nicholas Lichtmaier)
along with some scripts that implemented it.

There were some replies in favour, some against it.
The main cons were (if my memory does not fail) that an automatic signing 
procedure would validate a trojan uploaded by a mantainer, and that 
storing Debian's key in a multiuser system will leave it open to compromise.

Then, Ian Jackson posted a very carefully designed security procedure 
which received a few replies, but suddenly all discussion stopped.

Is work being done to implement Ian's proposal, or is it still
at discussion phase?

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Enrique Zanardi                                ezanardi@molec1.dfis.ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental
Univ. de La Laguna


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