RPM

RFE: Add opt-in metadata signature verification.

Bug #656501 reported by Jeff Johnson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
RPM
Fix Released
Medium
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.

Tags: rpmdb sign verify
Jeff Johnson (n3npq)
Changed in rpm:
assignee: nobody → Jeff Johnson (n3npq)
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: rpmdb sign verify
Jeff Johnson (n3npq)
summary: - RFE: Add opt-in metadata sugnature verification.
+ RFE: Add opt-in metadata signature verification.
Revision history for this message
Jeff Johnson (n3npq) wrote :

Verifying header signatures was add to --verify a while ago.
The operation is also multi-threaded using -fopenmp as well.

Changed in rpm:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
milestone: none → 5.3.12
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