Re: Lack of detached signatures

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The world is not so blank-and-white. Trust is ultimately among humans. If
> this message is not from the real Junio, don't you think you will hear
> something like "No, that c6ba05... is forgery, please don't use it!" from
> him, when he finds this message on the Git mailing list?  If he does not
> exercise diligence to even do that much, does he deserve your trust in the
> first place?

This assumes you will see the message, so while it does solve simple
attacks like sending an email with a fake From: header to the actual
list, it does not solve more advanced attacks like compromising
kernel.org's mailing-list server to avoid delivering you the forged
email.

I know I'm being a little paranoid here, but given the recent events
with kernel.org, maybe we should be that paranoid :-(.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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