[Catalog-sig] Proposal: close the PyPI file-replacement loophole

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On 1 February 2012 19:36, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> If you actually cared about security, you'd already be using, recording and
>> checking the MD5 checksums provided with each download and would already
>> know that this isn't a security loophole.
>>
>> If you're not, then quit with the security theater.
> 
> I believe the "security theater" of MD5 was proven, and exploits
> freely available, back in 2005 :-)

Perhaps we ought to rename the thread to: "Proposal: add SHA hashes to
distribution files", then :-)

I'd be +1 on that since it does actually add security to PyPI.

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