Re: signatures on release tarballs?

[Ray Wang <wanglei1123 gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Sandy Armstrong
<sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Brian Gough <bjg gnu org> wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> I have a question regarding the release tarballs on ftp.gnome.org.
>> As far as I can tell, these are not gpg-signed.  Is that correct?
>>
>> Are signatures available anywhere else or is there any alternative way
>> to check them?
>>
>> I'm working on a collected release of all GNU software packages and
>> we'd like to verify everything that goes in it.  Thanks.
>
> When we generate tarballs, we also generate their sha256sum.  Is that
> sufficient?  For example:
>
> http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/1.1/tomboy-1.1.4.sha256sum

The hash files probably need to be signed by gpg or something like that. :)

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