RFE: Add opt-in metadata signature verification.
Bug #656501 reported by
Jeff Johnson
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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RPM |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Jeff Johnson |
Bug Description
RPM 5.3 has dropped signature verification on headers retrieved
from an rpmdb because
1) there's no known benefit or increase in security
2) there's a performance penalty which -- while not large -- doesn't meet
luser expectations.
Verifying the signature on the header metadata blob needs to be resurrected as
"opt-in" functionality with --verify, and (for extra credit) performed on a separate thread.
Changed in rpm: | |
assignee: | nobody → Jeff Johnson (n3npq) |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: rpmdb sign verify |
summary: |
- RFE: Add opt-in metadata sugnature verification. + RFE: Add opt-in metadata signature verification. |
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Verifying header signatures was add to --verify a while ago.
The operation is also multi-threaded using -fopenmp as well.