Ben Alex wrote:
> Luke Taylor wrote:
>   
>> There was also some guy in the forum complaining about the fact that the
>> jar wasn't signed. We should probably formalize the use of PGP keys, add
>> them to the website and arrange to do some key signing when possible.
>> The readme file also needs to be changed.
>>     
>
> I have a PGP key these days (ID 0x9BBCD24D) and know that both Luke and
> Carlos do, so it's pretty easy to go with ZIP-level signing - plus
> there's a lot of precedence for this approach courtesy of Apache. Do
> people feel we should continue to sign the JAR using keytool, though, as
> well? Does anyone actually rely upon JAR signing? Carlos, has Maven got
> any smarts in terms of automatic verification of JARs downloaded from
> repositories against the public keys in the repository or similar? I
> don't see a lot of value in maintaining two signing approaches, as it
> would make life harder for someone else to perform releases. In any
> event, I'm a little tired of annually renewing keytool certificates when
> PGP keys can be configured to never expire (yet still provide a
> revocation approach).
>   
The only advantage of signing the JAR with keytool instead of PGP that I 
can see is that it makes Acegi easier to use in an Applet.

John



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