From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 03:11:59 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A49A46 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:11:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grarpamp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 910E88FC13 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id 16so5617865obc.13 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:11:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=QPWbCiWy3dIbUZg5s8xioMQuaFs/G2JlsWI/oI5JI0c=; b=mjwywSDsswu+3wDt9r098C84G1XZpntKElk9U/aTd0KO2f0N4dGrqbebOOLaMnygRz gXh8o2NAgAZS7nylxWL34js3nGGPmjHi+1VFE0pdLG/O9jmIGBZbLXVGxgydbalEC/Xv EVw895KXKF5WylA2ln9TCXp+1XVTjORVVZfTgJdzCdQcV22z30FB2JCxpLmOGD6hCRQH Xl/9VM2+THkaZmsdOeAtd+7tIOHSyj1A0o1ZtTLKBLiKePGEW/V2AVKzXCL83fezPSZM YwyMLz5Qq/cbNDnEZ5puHxn4UhvLAYp8lFWJJoRTfZITh+iG5PSSQ/3vd5Y1BMWEyXlY k/kw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.22.5 with SMTP id z5mr9224944oee.88.1353294718822; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:11:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.68.39 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:11:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:11:58 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident] From: grarpamp To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:42:23 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:11:59 -0000 >> grarpamp >> the various good uses for nyms. > cpghost@cordula.ws > I hope you realize whom you're trying to lecture here! > Joerg Wunsch is a highly appreciated long-time FreeBSD contributor Of course. No one here has any question as to anyone's FreeBSD participation. That would be silly :) I merely contest the suggestion that nyms have little to no utility, that people need moderate their usage alone in public, and that those using them are somehow lessers. I won't fail to defend general anti-nym opinion or guidance, particularly when wafted in this general direction. > Now, back to our regular programming. Yes, about this lack of a self-authenticating repo, etc. [1] It is good to see some discussion forming around it :) [1] Or whatever it may better be called. Put another way... we can't yet say, in the strong cryptographic sense, that anyone has a true copy of the repo. Or that the repo is itself internally tamper free and/or tamper proof. And so on as applied down the production and distribution chain. The repo does face certain risks. And Git appears as if it may be one way to mitigate them.