FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

[Michael Ross]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:11:43 +0100, Ivan Klymenko <fidaj at ukr.net> wrote:

> В Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:00:06 -0500
> grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> пишет:
>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html
>> http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/11/17/143219/freebsd-project-discloses-security-breach-via-stolen-ssh-key
>>
>> This is not about this incident, but about why major opensource
>> projects need to be using a repository that has traceable, verifiable,
>> built-in cryptographic authentication.
>>

> LOL And how will this help Linux?
> http://lwn.net/Articles/457142/

In the first comment on the article you link to, you find this:

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/171-jonathan-corbet/491001-the-cracking-of-kernelorg

where the OPs view is susbstantiated.



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