security vs. configure

2001-04-22 Thread Tom Holroyd
quot;? Can configure include tools that make such integrity verification easier (and automatic)? For example, "make dist" or whatever could always create a GPG-signed file. What other ways do you see to solve the problem of "configure" being that "untrusted binary app"

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Tom Holroyd
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Michael Still wrote: > Autoconf could run gnupg / pgp (if present) after generating the configure > script and produce a checksum on the script. If this was a default action, > then it would increase the chance of developers having at least some > checksumming. > > It doesn't