Cryptographically enabled ports tree.

[Colin Percival]

At 22:59 21/06/2003 -0700, David Schultz wrote:
>If you just want to know that the bits you have came from
>freebsd.org, that's another thing.  The technology to do that
>already exists in cvsup, as long as you trust the mirrors.  (Most
>of them probably don't use authentication right now, but that can
>be fixed, I'm sure, if enough people are concerned about it.)

   Well, sort of.  The authentication in cvsup relies upon starting with a 
shared secret, which isn't an option for the general public.

>If your whole point is that you don't trust the mirrors, then maybe
>you have a case for signing deltas on the master...

   Exactly.  I might, grudgingly, be willing to trust the people who run 
the cvsup mirrors -- although I'd really rather not -- but trusting the 
security, physical and electronic, of the mirrors is quite a different matter.

Colin Percival