[dev] Signing Packages

Mathieu Parent math.parent at gmail.com
Fri Oct 18 10:40:12 UTC 2013


Hi,

2013/10/17 Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
> For security reasons, we should be signing our packages.  This is easily
> done via 'pear sign [packagefile]'.
>
> Granted, there isn't any easy utility to *verify* the signature (at least in
> PEAR itself).  But wouldn't hurt to be doing this going forward.

This is very important for us packagers (me=Debian packager).

> FYI: The signature is based on the package.xml file.  So verifying is done
> by:
> gpg --verify package.sig package.xml

But what will be the trusted signing keys?

-- 
Mathieu


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