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Re: list of upstream tarball signing schemes?



Hi,

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:55:34AM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote:

> nix-2.3.1.tar.xz.asc - which signs the .sha256
> nix-2.3.1.tar.xz.sha256 - which contains the hash of the tarball
> nix-2.3.1.tar.xz

I'd grumble about this in the general direction of upstream. The signature
is generated over a hash of the input data in any case, so using a hash as
the input data does not gain anything, you just lose automatic
verification.

   Simon


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