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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 05:08:18 +0000
From: Moritz Naumann <info@...itz-naumann.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL insecure install via yum (multiple
 problems)

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Eric H. Christensen:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 06:58:22PM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> Signing RPM's isn't very useful if you never make the signing
>> key available!
> 
> You mean like this: 
> http://keys.fedoraproject.org/pks/lookup?search=0x442df0f8&op=vindex

Still
> 
plain HTTP there (on a somewhat unrelated site), also:
* short key ID (no fingerprint) listed on http://yum.postgresql.org
* DSA-1 key: 3 don'ts in a row.

The situation is a bit better for the APT repository:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt

* 4096-bit RSA key
* instructs to download key from same site - using plain http
  (but HTTPS is available - GoDaddy CA domain control validated)
* (short key ID used in documentation only)

In contrary to the Yum repository signing key this OpenPGP key is
signed by someone else, notably a Debian developer, so verifying it
via the web of trust / strong set /may/ succeed.

Maybe a new policy document would solve it...
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Policies
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ReleasePrep

This said, I'm glad that the Postgresql Global Development Group do
provide us with these repositories.

Moritz
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