Danek Duvall wrote:
The structure also brings up the issue of stability order of entries, which
will be necessary for catalog signing.  Signing and verification could
always happen on a transform of the catalog, where dictionaries are turned
into lists of key/value pairs sorted by key, but given that we'll want to
verify the signature every time we read the catalog (I assume), then this
seems a bit expensive.  Perhaps you or Bart have given some more thought to
this?

I would validate the catalog only when it's extended...
I am assuming that we would impose a synthetic order for manifest;
catalogs would need to do the same.

- Bart



Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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