Hi All!,

can we start a more detailed discussion on how can we have the maretplace
support for the developer signatures?

Do we need:
- use cases/user stories?
- more detailed requirements?
- anything else?

We'd be glad to help out, of course.

Best,
Kamil





On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Paul Theriault <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On 7 Aug 2014, at 2:52 am, Andy McKay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Aug 1, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Stéphanie Ouillon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> For specific reasons detailed below [3], we need to support a signature
> >> model compatible with the Android model [4]. Until now, the Marketplace
> >> has been using the same tools/model.
> >>
> >> If we're to support developer signing, we can imagine several models:
> >>
> >> 1) handling multiple signatures: the app is signed twice, once by the
> >> developer and once by the Marketplace (e.g.: having two manifest files
> >> in META-INF signed by each key)
> >
> > Signing twice would seem to be the simplest, since it doesn’t need any
> trust between the Marketplace and the developer. The signing by the
> Marketplace indicates a different thing (Mozilla approves this app) from
> the Developer signing (that over a period of release we can trust the app
> is from the some developer).
> >
> > Would the Marketplace be expected to do anything with that developer
> signing - for example, check that the signing is by certain trusted
> developers, or stays the same over time or anything else?
>
> Initially I don’t think it _needs_ to do anything at least initially, but
> yes I can imagine that we would want to enforce some security controls such
> as checking that the signature was valid before adding our signature.
> Perhaps associating a signature with an account so that developers can
> vouch for their content.
>
> >
> > Are there limits on the types of apps that could be signed, e.g.: only
> Packaged apps?
>
> Yes, only static apps can be signed - i.e. only packaged apps. Signing
> dynamically generated content defeats the purpose of signing.
>
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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