On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Marc Deslauriers
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13-08-08 08:39 AM, Roberto Alsina wrote:
>> Also, there is no plan whatsoever to display package signing errors because 
>> (I
>> remember this too ;-) the signature would only be checked on upload, and then
>> we'd trust that we are getting the packages securely via HTTPS.
>
> I don't think HTTPS is enough to be secure. We need to sign the package 
> checksum
> with some sort of store key.


Do you think having split out the signature into the index metadata
and verifying that the downloaded file matches with that would be a
equal enough approach?

-- 
Martin

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