Re: CLiki and ALU Wiki sites massively spammed

"Steven E. Harris" <seh@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> bradb <brad.beveridge@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> The big improvement that should be made is that key checks should be
>> made automatically, and only barf an error up when there really is a
>> problem & the chance of attack is high.
>
> The key checks are done automatically. The error here is in not having
> acquired the authors' public keys before attempting installation of a
> signed packaged.

Ok, so the improvement we need on asdf-install is:
- that it aquires automatically the needed keys (only report the thrust on it).
- that it refuses absolutely to install the package without the right keys.

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