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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen signing and wget

To: Joanna Rutkowska <joanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen signing and wget
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 16:21:52 +0100
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On 06/07/2010 16:12, "Joanna Rutkowska" <joanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> While the Xen sources have recently become digitally signed by xen.org
> (which is just great), there is still a problem that its various
> Makefiles download (and subsequently build) various 3rd party software
> via wget (e.g. ioemmu, grub, tboot, etc). Unless I'm missing something,
> the downloaded 3rd part software is never verified in any way.

We download tarballs from http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-extfiles rather
than random 3rd party sites. And qemu from our very own git repository also
on xenbits.

 -- Keir




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