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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:43:00PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:21 -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:08:07PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:59 -0700, Andrew wrote:
> > > > There is no keyserver, guru signing keys are not published to any
> > > > keyserver unless the guru wants to, but theres no point to it, the 
> > > > keys
> > > > are taken from the gurus.gpg keyring included in the grimoire.
> > > 
> > > Well then it's exactly the same as hash values :-), in that until the
> > > grimoire (or keyring) is downloaded, nothing can be checked. If as you
> > > suggest a method exists to alert the user that there's an updated
> > > signature, hashes could be part of this method.
> > 
> > (var) UPDATED, (file) HISTORY, (file) SECURITY, (file) ChangeLog are 
> > four such methods.
> 
> I'm not getting what you say here. But if you're listing objects whose
> change can be detected, then I agree. DETAILS change would detect a new
> hash, and a keyring change would detect a new key.

On an update of the grimoire, those files can alert the user, in 
general, of any update.  That's all I was saying.

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