Automatic Script Updater

Sven Krohlas sven at asbest-online.de
Thu Oct 8 16:21:32 CEST 2009


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Heya,

> Sorry, but "trustworthy" would never work in real life. Who wants to
> take responsibility?

the (very few) persons who have access to our key.


> Let's say that you trust me in general. In reality you would only
> trust me with certain things, e.g. fetching ice cream, programming UI
> code, whatever. But you would not trust me to do a medical checkup on
> you.
> 
> Even if you did trust me with medicine, I could screw up. The same
> applies to 3rd party contributors, as an analogy.

We only have to trust them in one single point: that they don't
intend to distribute malware to Amarok users. Nothing else.

What I describe is basically a Public Key Infrastructure. I don't
see any other way to do this (except signing every update with
our key).
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