Comment by gruez

2 months ago

So, EV code signing certificates? Windows has that, and it'll verify that right in the OS. Git for instance, shows as being signed by

CN = Johannes Schindelin O = Johannes Schindelin S = Nordrhein-Westfalen C = DE

Downside is the cost. Certificates cost hundreds of dollars per year. There's probably some room to reduce cost, but not by much. You also run into issues of paying some homeless person $50 to use their identity for cyber crimes.

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mc32  2 months ago

How would the homeless chap have the creds or gravitas for people to trust him or her?

  • veeti  2 months ago

    I don't really know who Johannes Schindelin is either but use git quite happily.

brabel  2 months ago

You don’t need certificates , just use PGP keys like Maven.

  • gruez  2 months ago

    PGP keys don't tell you anything about a developers "real identity". Theoretically theres some "web of trust", but realistically everyone just blindly downloads whatever PGP key is listed on the repo's install instructions.

    • brabel  2 months ago

      Bullshit. The public key can be obtained by several easy means, like visiting the publisher website or social network site like GitHub which is common. That verifies the identity just as well as any certificate! But with much less trouble.

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