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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch
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Robert Collins |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch |
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Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:46:04 +1100 |
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 08:42, Karel Gardas wrote:
> > I suggest --gpg-key=<string> to commit, and have no field name to
> > suggest at this point.
>
> Hmm, is this really worth the effort of added complexity to support
> optional resigning instead of dump-copy of signatures?
Yes.
Trivial case: uploading from an unsigned mirror to a signed public
mirror.
Trivial case: The public mirror is to be all signed by the 'authorised
uploader', not the individual contributors.
> BTW: for x509 you will need to change --gpg-key to something else. What
> about to use: --sign-key=<string> --sign-mech=<mech>, where mech might be
> ``gpg'' or ``x509'' or others...
Wouldn't it make sense to simply use x509 all the time ?
Alternatively, we could have a gpg-options="--sign-key=rbtcollins
--sign-mech=x509" tla command, which is then passed through to gpg.
Rob
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GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Robert Collins, 2003/12/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Charles Duffy, 2003/12/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Tom Lord, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Tom Lord, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/08
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Karel Gardas, 2003/12/07
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (volunteers?) crypto signatures for arch, Karel Gardas, 2003/12/07