[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > It's important that the distribution channels for the MD5 checksum > information and the files themselves remain separate. (For this > reason I think that putting the MD5 checksums in the Incoming > directory itself is bad - there should be a separate administrative > directory.)
This is why I had proposed to PGP-sign the .changes files as a method of verifying their authenticity. The program that processed the .changes files would check them against the purported author's public key. If I understand you correctly, you are proposing to have a write-only upload directory for the .changes files . Bruce