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| author | Patrick McDermott <pehjota> | 2018-06-24 22:27:14 (EDT) |
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| committer | Patrick McDermott <pehjota> | 2018-06-24 22:27:14 (EDT) |
| commit | da74882bfe0a3cf57e2d4d0a4bbd726652879587 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a2dacd75c4d2755d8d995931bfd703e7dc28cbe /dev | |
| parent | 2307bbd7a858590b6ae21481a35be51352478062 (diff) | |
dev/archive/signing: Consider not distributing keys with prokit
Rely on existing PKI and leave keyring management to users.
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| -rw-r--r-- | dev/archive/signing.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/dev/archive/signing.mdwn b/dev/archive/signing.mdwn index e7d6168..0dfd6be 100644 --- a/dev/archive/signing.mdwn +++ b/dev/archive/signing.mdwn @@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ key(s) into their keyring. If keys are distributed with prokit, **revocations and key transitions need to be handled somehow**. +A user already has to import a key into their own keyring to verify their prokit +download. Maybe it's better to just instruct users to also download the archive +signing key(s) into their keyrings. This takes advantage of existing PKI, and +leaves users to make sure their keyring is kept updated with signatures, +revocations, changed expiration dates, and transitions. It also avoids having +released prokit versions "expire" due to included keys expiring. + +Suggestions welcome. + Opkg ---- |