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On 14 Feb 2013 03:59, "Donald Stufft" <<a href="mailto:donald.stufft@gmail.com">donald.stufft@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Robert Collins wrote:<br>
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>> On 13 February 2013 15:12, Giovanni Bajo <<a href="mailto:rasky@develer.com">rasky@develer.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> Yes, that's correct. GPG chain-of-trust concept is not used in my proposal,<br>
>>> because I don't think it would be a good fit for this problem given its<br>
>>> requirements. Specifically, I believe pip users should not be bothered with<br>
>>> useless click-through questions for each new package they install, which is<br>
>>> what you would get far too often in case chain-of-trust were used.<br>
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>> But this means someone that gets access to the PyPI server can just<br>
>> mark their own key as trusted and compromise any package they want.<br>
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>> -Rob<br>
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> I used to have the same idealistic idea that we should be able to<br>
> *not* trust PyPI for the average user. However PyPI *is* the final<br>
> authority on who has the right to publish to what name. It would be<br>
> a bit like trying to determine if the PSF owns <a href="http://python.org">python.org</a> without<br>
> involving the company running the .org TLD. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I see it as similar to the SSL CA system - it has plenty of known flaws, but still closes a whole lot of attack vectors, and thus is worth doing. Particularly security conscious users will still be able to do their own verification, or pay a redistributor to do additional verification on their behalf. (For example, I expect you would fail all the meaningful Common Criteria EAL certification levels if you blindly trusted PyPI).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Nick.</p>
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