[openib-general] creating releases for the libraries you own

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Oct 30 16:50:26 PST 2006


 > >  > Well, with ~user/html I can easily cook up a perl script to generate a MD5
 > >  > checksums or sign stuff and just stick them in the same directory as original files.
 > > 
 > > But you can do that with any old hosting, can't you?  Or am I missing
 > > something?
 > 
 > This depends on the level of paranoia :)
 > If all files are on the same server, I only have to trust that server's integrity.

But we're talking about signed releases, right?  Surely you're not
going to put your private key on some web server -- you're going to
sign the packages before you upload them anyway.  So I still don't see
why I care about web hosting, given how many other places already give
it to me.

 - R.




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