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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 07:32 PM EDT

If you hand me a CD and say "this is the latest signed Ubuntu" and I shove it in my drive, I'd somehow like to know that it was really signed by Canonical. How do you reconcile that with letting everybody sign stuff

If I hand you a CD and say it's the latest Ubuntu and you only have the Canonical key installed in your bootloader, you can be pretty darn certain the signed bits are from Canonical.

If I hand you a CD that has signed bits I've modified, I'd also need to hand you the key to install in your BIOS and tell you to install that key to run my signed bits (or to turn off secure boot, but I assumed you meant to keep secure boot enabled).

Nobody needs to hand out their private signing keys.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Right. Except. - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 07:59 PM EDT
- Right. Except. - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 08:17 PM EDT
  - According to the GPL - Authored by: pem on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 08:46 PM EDT
    - According to the GPL - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 10:21 PM EDT
      - Because of responsibilities - Authored by: pem on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 10:29 PM EDT
        Because of responsibilities - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 11:00 AM EDT
        Not at all - Authored by: pem on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 03:11 PM EDT

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