[Python-Dev] Hashes on same site as download?

2013-10-21 Thread Dan Stromberg
I may be missing something, but it seems the Python tarballs and hashes are on the same host, and this is not an entirely good thing for security. The way things are now, an attacker breaks into one host, doctors up a tarball, changes the hashes in the same host, and people download without

Re: [Python-Dev] Hashes on same site as download?

2013-10-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 21, 2013, at 06:21 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: I may be missing something, but it seems the Python tarballs and hashes are on the same host, and this is not an entirely good thing for security. All the tarballs are signed with the GPG keys of the release managers. The hashes are just a

Re: [Python-Dev] Hashes on same site as download?

2013-10-21 Thread Tim Delaney
On 22 October 2013 12:21, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com wrote: I may be missing something, but it seems the Python tarballs and hashes are on the same host, and this is not an entirely good thing for security. The way things are now, an attacker breaks into one host, doctors up a

Re: [Python-Dev] Hashes on same site as download?

2013-10-21 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Tim Delaney timothy.c.dela...@gmail.comwrote: On 22 October 2013 12:21, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com wrote: I may be missing something, but it seems the Python tarballs and hashes are on the same host, and this is not an entirely good thing for security.