Re: Should Fedora rpms be signed?

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On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 01:11 +0200, Matias F�ciano wrote:

> Since rawhide have some unsigned packages I like to know which package
> is not signed and I sign them with my key (so yum always have
> "gpgcheck=1") :
> I mirror rawhide in the i386 directory with rsync, and then I sign
> package that miss gpg.
> Note, I don't sign (that is, change) any package in i386 directory
> (rsync does not like this).

When somebody organizes a man-in-the-middle attack between you and
whichever site you rsync rawhide from , you sign the packages anyway.
Can you see how this is a big problem?

-- 
        Peter


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