Secrecy and user trust

[Bill Davidsen]

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> * Travis Arnold <vestwearingpunk at gmail.com> [20080902 22:52]:
> [drivel snipped]
>> Hey I am currently downloading the ISO dvd to install after I finish my
>> day's lessons, is this not a good idea to do?
> 
> The word from the Fedora folks on Aug 14th was - don't update until
> further notice. Since then, they have - IIRC - said it's safe to do
> so. The ISO's should be safe, as well as the packages that you can
> update to from the servers.
> 
> New updates should start rolling once they have resigned everything.
> 
Distributing that will be quite slow, since they need to (a) validate, 
then (b) sign, then (c) distribute out-of-band to mirrors, and then 
hardest of all find a secure way to provide the public part of the 
signing key. Obviously you don't risk letting someone slip in a bogus 
NEW fake key and go around on this again.

Suggestion: since the livna key is still secure (AFAIK) let them 
distribute the new Fedora key and sign the RPM.

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