signed tarballs

William Roberts bill.c.roberts at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 20:30:57 UTC 2017


On Apr 13, 2017 13:28, "Christian Rebischke" <Chris.Rebischke at archlinux.org>
wrote:

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:03:54AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> I added a sha256sum to the release announcement yesterday. You can also
access
> the people page via https.
>

Thanks, but as I stated before. SHA256 and https doesn't ensure a
non-malicious tarball. Only a signed tarball can achieve this.


That's not true, he's providing you a detached signature via this
mechanism. You just need to check the sha256sum before extraction.





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