Re: [Catalog-sig] PyPI mirror key rollover

2011-04-28 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I came up with a key rollover scheme for the server key on PyPI. The objective of this key rollover is to protect against brute-force attacks of people trying to crack the key. If the main server itself gets compromised

Re: [Catalog-sig] PyPI mirror key rollover

2011-04-28 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Am 28.04.2011 10:26, schrieb M.-A. Lemburg: Martin v. Löwis wrote: I came up with a key rollover scheme for the server key on PyPI. [...] The key rollover will be logged in the PyPI journal, using an empty package name and an empty release. TOOLS USING THE JOURNAL

[Catalog-sig] PyPI mirror key rollover

2011-04-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I came up with a key rollover scheme for the server key on PyPI. The objective of this key rollover is to protect against brute-force attacks of people trying to crack the key. If the main server itself gets compromised (and the private key leaks), this scheme will not help, and we will need to