On 1/12/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is anyone working on adding some cryptographic checksums and stuff on
> pacman packages ala secure-apt[1]?
>
> /M
>
> 1. http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt

I'm not sure I get the point.  What would a user gain from this
encryption?  Right now, md5sums decently validate a downloaded file...
it seems that secure-apt bascially just adds a check for the
equivalent of the db.tar.gz file.  Is this correct?

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