Re: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs SignJarTest.java

2005-04-01 Thread Vincent Ryan
of Ant users. Bye for now. Original Message List: ant-dev Subject:Re: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs SignJarTest.java From: Steve Loughran Date: 2005-03-30 9:34:05 Message-ID: <424A728D.7040707 () apache ! org> Kev J

Re: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs SignJarTest.java

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Loughran
Kev Jackson wrote: Here are my current plans -pull the declaration of , tests, etc. -I'd leave the code over in optional, always excluded, with a "here is why this is broken" comment. Its aim is to warn off others. -Not attempt to use jar signing as a way of verifying JAR downloads in ; this was

Re: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs SignJarTest.java

2005-03-30 Thread Kev Jackson
Here are my current plans -pull the declaration of , tests, etc. -I'd leave the code over in optional, always excluded, with a "here is why this is broken" comment. Its aim is to warn off others. -Not attempt to use jar signing as a way of verifying JAR downloads in ; this was my plan. Could you

Re: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs SignJarTest.java

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Loughran
Kev Jackson wrote: Well, a bit of hackery and you can verify that JAR is signed. But there is *nothing* to verify that the signature itself is trusted. Essentially "jarsigner -verify" is a worthless piece of junk from the security perspective. Who'd have thought that a commit message would

Re: cvs commit: ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs SignJarTest.java

2005-03-25 Thread Kev Jackson
Well, a bit of hackery and you can verify that JAR is signed. But there is *nothing* to verify that the signature itself is trusted. Essentially "jarsigner -verify" is a worthless piece of junk from the security perspective. Who'd have thought that a commit message would have me ROFL! "Worthl