Reply to post: Re: No chain of trust?

Et tu, Gentoo? Horrible gits meddle with Linux distro's GitHub code

Nick Kew

Re: No chain of trust?

Where you download from should have very little bearing on security. A cryptographic chain of trust works just as well with something off the back of a lorry as with the most trusted origin.

I wouldn't rely on a "gentoo.org" address for my security: that would open me to any number of attack vectors. Verifiable PGP signatures of verifiable gentoo personnel work altogether better.

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