Re: revision control downloads

2022-03-22 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 22, 2022, at 13:08, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Mar 21, 2022, at 9:20 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> Ports that fetch their sources from a revision control system do not enjoy >> the protection of checksums. Although ports that fetch source from a >> revision control system specify which tag

Re: Codesigning everything and combatting malicious code

2022-03-22 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 21, 2022, at 23:02, Joshua Root wrote: > We could ad-hoc codesign everything, which would not improve security at all, > but would get GateKeeper to ease up a bit on restrictions on incoming network > connections and the like. > Assurance that binaries have not changed after being

Re: Codesigning everything and combatting malicious code

2022-03-22 Thread Jason Liu
Apologies if what I'm about to say seems tangential... hopefully it provides historical context that is useful to the discussion at hand. = Remember that code signing was first implemented for apps that were published on the iOS App Store. This was very quickly (maybe even simultaneously?)

revision control downloads (was Re: Codesigning everything and combatting malicious code)

2022-03-22 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 21, 2022, at 9:20 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Ports that fetch their sources from a revision control system do not enjoy > the protection of checksums. Although ports that fetch source from a revision > control system specify which tag or commit hash to fetch, it is conceivable > that a