Re: Should we automatically generate a module signing key at all?

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Tue May 19 2015 - 14:08:30 EST


On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 10:58 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Throwing away the key is outright impossible in some contexts.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

Are any of the benefits described at
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About *not* just as
achievable with the method I suggested â where you throw away the key
and just validate that your builds are identical *except* for the
signatures... which you can reuse, since your builds were identical.

--
dwmw2


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