Re: F38 proposal: RPM Sequoia (System-Wide Change proposal)

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> For the last 20 years or so, RPM has used a home-grown OpenPGP parser
> for dealing with keys and signatures. That parser is rather infamous
> for its limitations and flaws, and especially in recent years has
> proven a significant burden to RPM development. In order to improve
> security and free developer resources for dealing with RPM's "core
> business" instead, RPM upstream is in the process of deprecating the
> internal parser in favor of [https://sequoia-pgp.org/ Sequoia PGP]
> based solution written in Rust.

Why are you using a new library written in Rust? Can you not use one of the 
existing mature C implementations of OpenPGP? gpgme maybe?

> At this point the change is mostly invisible in normal daily use.

Not really, because it makes some packages uninstallable.

> - Some old, insecure (MD5/SHA1 based) signatures are rejected (this is
> in line with the stronger crypto settings proposed elsewhere for F38)

Such a hardcoded restriction, without a way for the local administrator to 
allow the legacy signatures, is not acceptable.

        Kevin Kofler
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