Re: More prominent link to verification hashes

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On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 01:43:54PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:31:05AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > So, I see that someone hacked Linux Mint, and slipped in some trojaned ISO
> > > download images.
> > Since Fedora looks to be moving to Live USB Creator (maybe Fedora
> > Media Writer, TBD) as the primary download for Fedora 24, I wonder if
> > the new tool automatically verifies the GPG signed hash file, and
> > compares that hash with a computed one from the downloaded file?
> 
> AFAIK, it compares the computed hash with the one from the hash file,
> but I don't think it does GPG verification. There's some level of
> "turtles all the way down" going on here, though, because how do you
> know that LiveUSB creator is itself uncompromised, checking against the
> right GPG key, and reporting the results accurately?

Wasn't there a lot of discussion recently about how to sign LUC?

Zbyszek
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