Willy,

Am 31.07.2018 um 20:32 schrieb Willy Tarreau:
> That's where I disagree, it's exactly the same argument causing TLS to
> appear on every web site even when not necessary, making people believe
> they are safe while they are not. Right now you don't have this PGP
> signature so you are careful about what you retrieve. And that's the
> reason why you're talking about it by the way, because verifying all
> this is painful on your side. But if I start to claim "look, no need
> to double-check anymore, trust me, it's safe", you won't run this
> extra safety check once in a while. But the process involved in placing
> this signature may not be safer than the one involved in the checksum.
> 
> With this said, I'll take a look at Bertrand's proposal, which I think
> does satisfy my needs.

To nitpick this still would require you to trust the binaries (e.g. tar)
on the haproxy.org machine :-)

Anyway: I am disgressing here and will patiently await whether or not
there will be PGP signatures in the future.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus

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