Re: Checking signatures on package source tarballs

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On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 18:01 +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> Because technically, verifying a tarball that the packager uploaded,
> with a signature that the packager uploaded, against a key that the
> packager uploaded, that doesn't really add anything compared to the
> packager verifying the signature before they upload the tarball.

... every time.

You're right, it doesn't really add anything. But it's free, and it's a
belt-and-braces system. Whatever might corrupt a tarball between the
original download and the RPM build, the check in %prep would catch it.

Assuming the signing key isn't *also* compromised, of course. But
there's a fairly large class of problems that *would* be caught. For
almost no effort.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx                              Intel Corporation

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