Aaron Griffin schrieb:
I think we're confusing things here. The checksums in pacman are only used for integrity, not security. I agree that the first step towards super-omg-secure packages would be switching to a different checksum, but sha1 might be deemed insecure soon too. Why not jump over that one to something like sha256?
Once you sign the repo db file, the checksums are signed as well, so you cannot change the checksum without invalidating the db signature. If you would use a secure hash function, this adds a good layer of security (except for the trust issue).
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