Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-09 Thread Thomas Stover
I'm trying to follow along here, and have a few abstract questions. If an attacker takes control over a repository, then that repository is compromised, and would need to be restored from a non-compromised back up. By compromised we mean someone deleted it, defaced it, or worse tries to hide

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-09 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 13:02, Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com wrote: -Algorithmically verify that changes are signed by trusted users on push/pull operations. (this is also a question) Theoretically, it is sufficient to sign a leaf manifest so that entire part of the DAG that grows out

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-08 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 22:03, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 18:03, Brian Smith br...@linuxfood.net wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: Looking

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-07 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 19:11, Brian Smith br...@linuxfood.net wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 18:03, Brian Smith br...@linuxfood.net wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-07 Thread Themba Fletcher
On Mar 7, 2012, at 19:10, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 18:03, Brian Smith br...@linuxfood.net wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: Looking through the fossil source code I found places where manifests are

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-07 Thread Leo Razoumov
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 19:37, Themba Fletcher themba.fletc...@gmail.com wrote: If I understand correctly, what happened at github was that someone exploited a misconfiguration in the rails framework to insert his own public key as trusted with respect to several repositories. The fossil

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Hipp
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 18:03, Brian Smith br...@linuxfood.net wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Leo Razoumov slonik...@gmail.com wrote: Looking through the fossil source code I found places where manifests are