Bug#882694: [sysadmin] Signatures on uncompressed archives

2018-03-13 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello Konstantin, On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 05:20:26PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On 03/08/18 05:15, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > The kernel.org archive provides signatures for the software available > > (which is great!). The method to verify these according to > > > > > >

Bug#882694: [sysadmin] Signatures on uncompressed archives

2018-03-13 Thread Konstantin Ryabitsev
On 03/13/18 05:33, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >>> But it also has an impact on security: As long as the signature isn't >>> verified I have to consider the .tar.xz "untrusted" and the less tools I >>> have to make operate on it the better. This scheme allows an attacker >>> that has control over a