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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:51 -0700, Andrew wrote:
> > 
> > Vendor signing is great but personally I would extra add our hash.
> > What about if for example home page of  wget is cracked, wget author's 
> > key is stolen, new tarball with "rm -rf /*" is created and signed?
> > 
> 
> If you put the vendor's signature in the spell that can't happen.
> Yes thats different than current suggestions for vendor signing, but
> has come up elsewhere. No need to have extra guru supplied verification.

If the vendor has a compromised key and is not doing anything about it,
then removing their signature and replacing it with a good hash may be a
solution.