On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:22:00PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> I made some tests, and it seems that we could allow,but not require, GPG
> signed checksum-file. sha256sum will ignore invalid lines by default
> (unless you specify --warn option).
> 
> Similarly, the policy could state that GPG clear-signed shasum files are
> allowed. Tools using shasum should still strip the signature, especially
> when using the checksum for security purpose.

Is there any good reason not to use a detached signature in a
separate file instead? I know that doubles the number of files, but
it also reduces the raw size by around 47 bytes and simplifies
parsing of the checksum files themselves.
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