On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 12:50 +0530, Keerthan jai.c wrote:

Why can't we do this?

1) Keep hashes of {core,extra,community,multilib}.db in plaintext in keys.archlinux.org or something 2) while syncing pacman compares the hashes of the downloaded dbs from the main server ensuring that the packages are not tampered!

I suggest you first look at all the prior discussion on the topic. Its not as simple as that.