Signing key for release checksums?

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 30 16:23:55 UTC 2016


On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 06:13:25PM +1100, Felix Friedlander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In response to a request on freebsd-questions@, I was wondering
> if it would be possible, on the release signatures pages (example:
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/signatures.html) to include
> a link to the key used to create these signatures?
> 
> Also thought I might add that these checksums can be a little
> hard to find (as demonstrated!) for someone new to the project, but
> that’s not really my point.
> 

The problem here is that it depends on *who* announced the release.
This is a topic that has come up several times over the past few months,
though not necessarily in this context exactly.

But this is good feedback, and another situation that was not yet
considered.

Glen

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