Re: signed tarballs
On Thursday, April 13, 2017 4:30:57 PM EDT William Roberts wrote:
On Apr 13, 2017 13:28, "Christian Rebischke"
<Chris.Rebischke(a)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.
Yeah, MD5 = collisions. SHA-1 = collisions. SHA-2 no known collisions. NIST
found during the SHA-3 competition that SHA-2 was much more robust than
previously thought.
-Steve