[Psi-devel] OT: CACert included in Kubuntu?

Hal Rottenberg halr9000 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 15:36:04 PST 2006


On 11/30/06, Justin Karneges <justin-psi2 at affinix.com> wrote:
> So yeah, GPG is a perfectly fair way to do secure package downloading.  The
> other way would be to use X.509 without the official root CAs.  I would
> recommend either of these approaches in any situation where all parties
> involved are "known", not just for package management.

And the Windows equivalent would be to X.509 sign the installer
package and other executables themselves.

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