Re: More prominent link to verification hashes

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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7 March 2016 at 01:32, Ralf Senderek <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> What would be proper other places to confirm the fingerprint?
>>
>> The following criteria might be reasonable:
>>      - a place that has authority, that people might trust.
>>      - a place that is hard to impersonate, that has some protection
>>        against unauthorized use
>>      - a place that is visible to many people with a need to verify.
>>      - a place that is known for publishing cross-checked, reliable information
>>
>> Hope that helps to find such places.
>
> Not really. Everything above is subjective. In the past, when I have
> looked for sites that meet such criteria no one agrees that the place
> meets such criteria.
>
> We put it in redhat.com and people who hate corporations or that Red
> Hat sponsors this project assume that if Red Hat were paid enough
> money they would change the data any time.
>
> We put it in archive.org and people wonder how we can tell it isn't
> impersonated by some other site or that someone else isn't changing
> it.
>
> We put it in lwn.net and people wonder how they will know where to
> find it or why we didn't choose reddit/slashdot/etc/etc.
>
> We get google to host it and people wonder all of the above.


Get them all to host it. That oughta bypass any tomfoolery.


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