[Python-Dev] Signed packages (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald.stufft at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 18:56:41 CEST 2012

On Friday, June 22, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Alexandre Zani wrote:

Key distribution is the real issue though. If there isn't a key distribution infrastructure in place, we might as well not bother with signatures. PyPI could issue x509 certs to packagers. You wouldn't be able to verify that the name given is accurate, but you would be able to verify that all packages with the same listed author are actually by that author.

I've been sketching out ideas for key distribution, but it's very much a chicken and egg problem, very few people sign their packages (because nothing uses it currently), and nobody is motivated to work on infrastructure or tooling because no one signs their packages. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120622/8c1c3fdf/attachment.html>

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