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Flathub now marks unverified apps (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So all of them?

Would be nice if FlatHub actually supported cryptographic verification of apps..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Flathubs repository’s is GPG signed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Link me to the docs that say this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The GPG key is literally in the repo file https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol that's not for signing the packages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as a “package”. It is a repository of binary data with references to data in it (ala git). The whole repo and all data is gpg signed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Your claim that package payloads are signed is bullshit. Back it up by citing your sources

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

> ostree show flathub:runtime/org.kde.Platform/x86_64/6.6
commit a7443e846cf67d007fcecda5c9dc27844001cfb8929064395cfc25c6d71d9474
Parent:  23107550082daf3b2892a4a0db2543838578ca882340a756b988bc5c1614540c
ContentChecksum:  607ba9475d32a24c51509bc7919f5a93d401f8f7198c30ad93ad74051d966c41
Date:  2024-01-30 13:55:08 +0000

    build of org.kde.Sdk, Tue Jan 30 11:23:00 UTC 2024 (5998d2f3ef21414d14f066ab91fa44e5aef65b90)

    Name: org.kde.Platform
    Arch: x86_64
    Branch: 6.6
    Built with: Flatpak 1.14.4

Found 1 signature:

  Signature made Tue 30 Jan 2024 12:21:18 PM CST using RSA key ID 562702E9E3ED7EE8
  Good signature from "Flathub Repo Signing Key <[email protected]>"
  Primary key ID 4184DD4D907A7CAE
  Key expires Mon 14 Jun 2027 08:19:40 AM CDT
  Primary key expires Mon 14 Jun 2027 08:18:56 AM CDT

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And what happens if I mitm you and you get something unsigned? Does it ignore it and proceed?

This is why in asking for the docs that describe the security

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

GPG errors are fatal unless you manually configure the repo to ignore them with an obscure command.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Please link to the docs