[arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

Gaurish Sharma contact at gaurishsharma.com
Mon Mar 15 22:55:53 CET 2010


On Tuesday 16 Mar 2010 2:59:45 am Allan McRae wrote:


> 
> As an aside, I would like to see some numbers on where we could improve
> in this area.  I have been following the CVE announcements and several
> other distros security releases for the past few months and from what I
> see, I believe Arch is mostly ahead of the game.  Following the latest
> upstream releases has its advantages.
> 
> Allan
Hi Allan,
The major thing we are missing on is: Package signing 
It there is a need to catch up with other distros on this.
Package signing is extremely important to ensure that nobody can tamper the 
packages. similarly should be way to  package's integrity

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Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
www.gaurishsharma.com


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