OpenBSD Moving Towards Signed Packages — Based On D. J. Bernstein Crypto

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 18, 2014 @04:04PM from the those-signatures-will-be-worth-a-lot-of-money-some-day dept.

ConstantineM writes "It's official: 'we are moving towards signed packages,' says Theo de Raadt on the misc@ mailing list. This is shortly after a new utility, signify, was committed into the base tree. The reason a new utility had to be written in the first place is that gnupg is too big to fit on the floppy discs, which are still a supported installation medium for OpenBSD. Signatures are based on the Ed25519 public-key signature system from D. J. Bernstein and co., and his public domain code once again appears in the base tree of OpenBSD, only a few weeks after some other DJB inventions made it into the nearby OpenSSH as well."

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First thought upon seeing the headline: by macraig · 2014-01-18 16:17 · Score: 5, Funny

What does openBSD have to do with tattooing your Johnson?
Floppy discs and the programmers who use them! by danpbrowning · 2014-01-18 17:28 · Score: 5, Funny

Many members are up in arms over the large new utility: "Programmers these days with their fancy new computers and their gigantic 'five and a quarter' new-age magnetic spinning discs are constantly looking down on us 'old-fashioned' punch-card programmers. Why can't they write a new utility that supports six rows of 8-bit EBCDIC? Laziness. This just proves that OpenBSD don't care about small, home-built systems. Sixty four bytes is big enough for anybody."

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Daniel