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

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 21 06:18:39 UTC 2012


On 21/11/2012 03:37, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> The certificates are self-signed.  Whilst the hashes are published on
>> > the FreeBSD website, that site is only available via HTTP so there's
>> > still a bootstrap issue - which I don't have a general solution for.

> See DANE, RFC 6698.

Which means getting the FreeBSD.org domain signed using DNSSEC.
Something I'd be very happy to see.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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