Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2006 12:28:04 -0400
> Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Who signs the Manifests? Why are some unsigned? Is there a single
>> Gentoo Security Key (like I know Slackware has and some other distros
>> to ensure the authenticity of their files)?
> 
> Because the whole signing stuff isn't official, there has been a
> (partial) implementation plan a few years back, some people started to
> use it but is has never become official, the implementation is
> incomplete and there it can't and won't be enforced yet.

iirc, infra implemented signing of the daily portage snapshots. It was a
crude/simple way to get our tree 'signed', but its far from a scalable
nor proper solution. I think we only provided it since it didn't take
much effort for us to at least implement it and it gave the anal people
the ability to at least have some form of validity. It is one of the
options I know of currently.

Cheers-

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Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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