On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:08:57PM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> >     Please note that the digest and cryptographic information is
> >     optional since older repositories won't have the information and
> >     some users of the depot software may choose to not provide it.
> 
> While some users of the depot software may choose not to sign manifests or
> catalogs, I think that digests should not be optional, except when there
> are signatures.  Running without digests seems like pointless no-pants
> mode.

Pointless no-pants or not, this isn't going to make a huge difference
until we have end-to-end verification for the rest of the metadata.  You
may be able to detect that the catalog is corrupt, but until the
manifests have signatures / digests too, we're just pushing the point of
failure further along in the evaluation process.

-j
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