[Catalog-sig] [Draft] Package signing and verification process

Zygmunt Krynicki zygmunt.krynicki at canonical.com
Tue Feb 5 20:56:38 CET 2013


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W dniu 05.02.2013 20:21, Christian Heimes pisze:
> User installs package ---------------------
> 
> process: - <tool> retrieves the package and the combined signature
> file (PyPI's signature, metadata file and embedded signature of the
> uploader) - <tool> optionally downloads missing GPG keys from PyPI 
> - <tool> verifies PyPIs signature of the metadata file and then
> the uploader's signature of the content - on success <tool> install
> the package
> 
> The verification process needs some interaction with the
> downloader. She must accept and establish a trust level with each
> key. This needs to be discussed in detail.

Perhaps this part could be handled by (still unimplemented) distrust
system that I'm writing

https://github.com/zyga/distrust

Thanks
ZK
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