On Friday, March 23, 2012 10:21:20 PM UTC+1, greddin wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sander Mak wrote:
> > What do you guys do in practice to prevent this? Does anyone have 
> real-life
> > experience with such an attack?
>
> I think you raise some really good questions here, some that I've
> thought about before, but skipped over because "I don't have time to
> think about those things" :-)
>
Right, that sounds all too familiar :)
 

> This is where organizations like the Apache Software Foundation are
> helpful. Apache frowns upon projects that don't make releases every so
> often, so you're likely to have a somewhat recent release of an apache
> product. It's up to you and your dependent software projects to ensure
> you're using the later releases.
>
Right, but that does not necessarily solve the distribution/verification 
problem. Another company I've run in to that can help curating OSS is 
BlackDuck (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/management-of-open-source), 
however I've yet to see it in practice anywhere.
 

> As an aside, do you know if Artifactory contains the PGP checking
>
> feature that Nexus does? We've been using the open-source version of
> Nexus and are in the process of switching to the pro version of
> Artifactory.
>
I'm not sure, but a cursory glance through Google did not turn up any 
supporting evidence...

Regards,

Sander

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