given that the OS package verification use case is relevant for millions
of server installations, i'm not convinced that Linux on the Desktop is
really what rjh was referring to.

       --dkg

dkg got it in one. Especially with the advent of cloud computing and one-click deployments of whole OSes, the package verification space is bigger than ever before.

I don't have concrete numbers here, but my suspicion is that GnuPG is a package verification system that's useful for email... and most of the problems people have with it as a package verification system stem from the fact it was originally an email privacy system.

This isn't a mark against it. Any good software package will soon get used for things far beyond the authors' original intent.


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