Opened 14 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#221 closed task (fixed)
Put the apt repo signing key somewhere reasonable
| Reported by: | adehnert | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | internals | Keywords: | |
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Description (last modified by adehnert)
At the moment, achernya has the apt repo signing key on his laptop. We should put it somewhere more useful.
See discussion 2011-09-09 on -c scripts -i apt.
- Stick it in the locker
- Unencrypted (protected by AFS ACLs to scripts-root)
 - Encrypted to maintainer's keys
 
 - Stick it on the hosts
 - Stick it on the Fedora guests
 - Stick it on some build VM or server
- scripts-owned hardware in SMR
 - Shared (eg, zulu/magrathea)
 
 - Something else
 - Have each maintainer store it themselves
 
(3) is a bit silly. Other than that, I think they were all vaguely acceptable. One concern is whether a signed repo with a leaked key is worse than an unsigned repo (if it isn't, then being insecure is vaguely okay). (4) should ideally avoid having a single un-backed-up VM that needs to not vanish, by storing the key elsewhere.
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by ezyang
- Priority changed from normal to major
 - Type changed from defect to task
 
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by adehnert
- Description modified (diff)
 
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by adehnert
- Description modified (diff)
 
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by adehnert
comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by achernya
- Resolution set to fixed
 - Status changed from new to closed
 
The signing key lives on the hosts.
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Current ~consensus is (2). If there are no objections in the next ~day, the key should be copied to each of the hosts.