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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 4/4] Codesign setup.exe (DO NOT APPLY)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161213083038.GE3705@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shptass0.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

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On Dec 12 19:47, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >> 2/ The signature should be timestamped, so that it remains vaild after the
> >> signing key expires, but I assume you have to use the timestamp service of
> >> the CA that signed the key.
> >
> > Not necessarily.  We can workaround that by getting a new key and
> > release a new setup.
> 
> That wouldn't do any good for folks trying to use an old setup version
> or am I missing something?

They would get two messages, "Sig has expired" and "there's a new version
of setup".  Isn't that sufficient?


Corinna

> In the meantime, we could provide a detached signature with the cygwin
> key, just like we do for setup.ini?

We already do.  You can download setup-x86.exe.sig and
setup-x86_64.exe.sig from https://cygwin.com/


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-13  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-12 13:30 [PATCH setup 0/4] Various setup patches Jon Turney
2016-12-12 13:30 ` [PATCH setup 3/4] Remove unused grammar for dependent package architecture information Jon Turney
2016-12-12 13:30 ` [PATCH setup 4/4] Codesign setup.exe (DO NOT APPLY) Jon Turney
2016-12-12 17:31   ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-12-12 18:47     ` Achim Gratz
2016-12-13  8:30       ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-12-13 18:33         ` Achim Gratz
2016-12-13 20:01           ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-12-13 14:36     ` Jon Turney
2016-12-12 13:30 ` [PATCH setup 2/4] Fully initialize PROPSHEETPAGE Jon Turney
2016-12-12 13:30 ` [PATCH setup 1/4] Use English button labels 'Keep', 'Current' and 'Test' Jon Turney
2016-12-12 17:25 ` [PATCH setup 0/4] Various setup patches Corinna Vinschen

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