On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Tarek Ziadé <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tarek@ziade.org" target="_blank">tarek@ziade.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 11/19/12 7:43 PM, Daniel Holth
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<blockquote type="cite">If pypi would also sign the public key, and possibly
the metadata for a particular release, that feature could be
pretty cool.</blockquote>
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why pip ?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's the premier Python package manager.</div><div><br></div><div>PyPI would sign the publisher's keys so that you could trust them without having to worry about the connection. You could mirror the expected keys this way.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Key revocation is an unrelated issue. A revoked key is still revoked even if you can download a version of it that is not marked as revoked.</div></div></div>