Hi.

Le lun. 13 juil. 2020 à 11:12, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> a écrit :
>
> On 13/07/2020 06:43, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> > On 2020-07-12, Rob Tompkins wrote:
> >
> >> given the consistency of the signatures from the plugins…do we need to
> >> check them for releases anymore?
> >
> > Yes, please. Not everybody uses the plugins and even if everybody did a
> > misconfiguration could be pulling in the wrong key or a key not
> > available from the expected download location.
>
> +1, for several reasons
>
> It also catches corrupted uploads.
>
> It is simpler to fix during a release vote than after a release where
> we'd have to at least consider the possibility of malicious activity and
> respond accordingly until we could prove it wasn't.
>
> Mark

Perhaps I don't understand the implications of the question asked;
I've been suggesting for more than a couple of years that after the
"upload" part, the same script could download the artefacts: Unless
I'm missing something, this would rule out the scenario which you've
evoked above.

Regards,
Gilles

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