Re: detached gpg signature on repomd.xml

seth vidal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <1156632931.15084.0.camel@cutter>
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 18:05 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Saturday 26 August 2006 13:36, seth vidal wrote:
> > it'd be the same as signing packages.
> >
> > Someone's got to be there or you have to have a key available that's not
> > encrypted.
> >
> > I wasn't going to suggest that this be mandatory - just as an option for
> > repositories where it would be useful.
> 
> What about x509 cert rather than gpg?
> 

So a user now has to know about 2 types of certs rather than just 1? How
does an x509 cert change things?

-sv
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