Re: location of md5 files ... - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: location of md5 files ...
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Msg-id 1260980062.3310.14.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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In response to Re: location of md5 files ...  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: location of md5 files ...
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On mån, 2009-12-14 at 17:00 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: 
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Yes.
> > 
> > Ideally, we should serve up the MD5s from an SSL enabled webserver.
> > Something to think about for the future.
> 
> Shouldn't we distribute the MD5 signatures along the release message,
> which should itself be signed with some appropriate GPG key?

Someone was doing this a while ago on their own.

But the usual argument for the md5 files in the past was to catch
download mistakes, not security.



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