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
