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[Jerome Baum]

> The databases (lists) are not very large, as far as I understand, but
> it wasn't my call ("repositories" in the 4th line is a typo; I meant
> "databases"). I'm not an Arch Linux developer; I'm just contributing
> to their effort to implement package signing.

> Individual packages will be signed, but for complete security, the
> databases must themselves also be signed; otherwise, an attacker could
> use DNS spoofing to deliver a database listing outdated packages with
> known vulnerabilities, and it would happily be accepted by end-users'
> systems. The vulnerable packages would not be updated, but the users
> would most likely not notice, since other packages would be updated.

All makes sense. Just don't get why it's so expensive to download a
small package list?

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