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John Ericson a2a8cb10ac Dodge "trusted" vs "trustworthy" by being explicit
Hopefully this is best!
2022-09-22 14:37:52 -04:00
John Ericson 752f967c0f "valid signature" -> "trustworthy signature"
I just had a colleague get confused by the previous phrase for good
reason. "valid" sounds like an *objective* criterion, e.g. and *invalid
signature* would be one that would be trusted by no one, e.g. because it
misformatted or something.

What is actually going is that there might be a signature which is
perfectly valid to *someone else*, but not to the user, because they
don't trust the corresponding public key. This is a *subjective*
criterion, because it depends on the arbitrary and personal choice of
which public keys to trust.

I therefore think "trustworthy" is a better adjective to use. Whether
something is worthy of trust is clearly subjective, and then "trust"
within that word nicely evokes `trusted-public-keys` and friends.
2022-09-22 10:49:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra d33eca8539 Rename 'nix store sign-paths' to 'nix store sign' 2021-01-13 23:32:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ea2062a2d9 Move most store-related commands to 'nix store' 2020-12-03 23:22:22 +01:00
Will Fancher b7091ce41e Add a test for signed content-addressed paths 2018-09-25 22:18:52 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e3013543d3 Fix test 2017-12-07 01:07:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4fcf44825f
Add tests for verifying/copying content-addressed paths
These don't require signatures.
2017-11-20 19:11:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0c9718aabc
Add tests for signature checking when copying between local stores 2017-11-20 19:02:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a2b64e55c
binary-cache-public-keys -> trusted-public-keys
The name had become a misnomer since it's not only for substitution
from binary caches, but when adding/copying any
(non-content-addressed) path to a store.
2017-11-20 17:32:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ec5b04862b
nix sign-paths: Support binary caches 2017-11-14 18:44:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d6dbda7004
Add tests for "nix verify", "nix sign-paths" etc. 2017-11-14 18:24:20 +01:00