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Date:      Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:41:00 -0500
From:      Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com>
Subject:   Re: ports/63546: ports/security/libprelude - fetch PGP signature
Message-ID:  <20040229234100.GM10980@pm1.ric-41.lft.widomaker.com>
In-Reply-To: <40425855.4050006@fillmore-labs.com>
References:  <200402292021.i1TKLl7q016441@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040229211208.GA35429@pm1.ric-13.lft.widomaker.com> <40425855.4050006@fillmore-labs.com>

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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=
=20
> offending you, but blindly downloading and verifying a PGP signature is=
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> 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.

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

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iD8DBQFAQniKSypIl9OdoOMRAtGhAKC7MuBsOAazaWKKMiBt/1W+Xo9OawCggRa5
SM6XNAJ3SWSA1hP/uY2C170=
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