[Haskell-cafe] Enhancing the security of hackage

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 9 December 2010 23:04, Ketil Malde <ketil at malde.org> wrote:
> [snip]
> This way, somebody is likely to actually *notice* when some evil person
> uploads a trojan mtl or bytestring or whatever.  The downside is more
> mail, and the people who run Hackage have been wary about this.  So
> perhaps even this is on the wrong side of the cost/benefit fence.

Whilst we're wishfully thinking, why not register a package to an
individual or a group, and only allow them to upload it?  Possibly
linking this to a group on community.haskell.org or something.

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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