Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:16:08 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Trusted Software Vendor
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:57:45AM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>On 6/9/2012 9:57 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>and I'm really not willing to burden cygwin.com with the cycles
>>necessary to unpack tarballs at cygwin.com to sign them.
>
>Based on the traffic I see to cygwin-apps, my sense is that this would
>amount to single-digit CPU-minutes per day, once you get through the
>initial conversion.  That can be nice'd to the point that it takes a
>month; this doesn't have to be a Big Bang conversion.
>
>I think a much bigger problem is getting a Linux toolchain set up on
>the main package repo server that can sign these executables.  My
>Google-fu says the GNU tools have no idea how to do this today.
>
>Then someone has to spend at least a few hours writing and testing the
>script to do all this.  It might take a person-day.

If you are working under the misapprehension that I don't understand
what's required to get this to work, I can assure you that you're wrong.

>Red Hat might not have to buy a code signing cert for this.  They might 
>already have one that will work: http://goo.gl/5Hm3C

The Cygwin project is not Red Hat.  It wouldn't be "Red Hat" buying
anything.

cgf

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