ports/63546: ports/security/libprelude - fetch PGP signature

Jason Harris jharris at widomaker.com
Sun Feb 29 23:41:20 UTC 2004


On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:23:33PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:

> Unfortunate, but I guess we can fix this. I hope I made my point without 
> offending you, but blindly downloading and verifying a PGP signature is 
> actually *less* secure than the md5 checksum in distinfo, and worse, it
> gives a false sense of security.

No offense taken - your presumptions about security plague many.

-- 
Jason Harris           |  NIC:  JH329, PGP:  This _is_ PGP-signed, isn't it?
jharris at widomaker.com _|_ web:  http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/
          Got photons?   (TM), (C) 2004
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