On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:52:02PM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On 2013-01-08, Jaroslav Reznik <jrez...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >= Features/PackageSignatureCheckingDuringInstall =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageSignatureCheckingDuringInstall
> >
> > * Detailed description:
> > One long-standing problem in Fedora is that we don't check package 
> > signatures
> > during installation. This has been a persistent issue since the very 
> > beginning
> > of Fedora (and even in Red Hat Linux before it.) The reason for this has 
> > always been that there's no way to form any root of trust for the signatures
> > in the repositories, and thus no reason they wouldn't have been modified 
> > along
> > with whatever package would need to be re-signed after tampering.
> >
> Reading till here makes me pondering how's possible rpm does not check
> package signature.
> 
> > Following the implementation of Features/SecureBoot, we can extend the 
> > Secure
> > Boot keys as a root of trust provided by the hardware against which we can
> > verify a signature on our key files, thus guaranteeing that they're from the
> > same source as the boot media. 
> >
> Now it's clear it's about insttalling distribution. Not about installing
> a package with rpm in general.
> 
> Could reponsible person change title and abstract to be clear it's about
> _distribution_ installation?

Sure thing.

It's now at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageSignatureCheckingDuringOSInstall
, and the title and description have been changed to match that.

-- 
        Peter
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