Re: Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

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On 01/31/2010 09:18 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On 01/31/2010 08:31 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>
> Key signing is not required for us I think. Because Arch people are
> the first to release package updates. It is tested properly and is
> given in .tar.gz archives. Even if a byte is altered in the archive
> then its md5sum would change so pacman will complain.
>
Close, but what about the package list? The proposals I've seen have
mostly been to just sign the package list, since the md5 takes care of
everything else.


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