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[$] Strategies for offline PGP key storage
来源于:LWN
While the adoption of OpenPGP
by the general population is marginal at
best, it is a critical component for the security community and
particularly for Linux distributions. For example, every package
uploaded into Debian is verified by the central repository using the
maintainer's OpenPGP keys and the
repository itself is, in turn, signed
using a separate key. If upstream packages also use such signatures, this
creates
a complete trust path from the original upstream developer to
users.
Beyond that, pull requests for the Linux kernel are verified using
signatures as well.
Therefore, the stakes are high: a compromise of the release key, or
even of a single maintainer's key, could enable devastating
attacks against many machines. 查看全文>>