Re: Feature Request: Changeset Signing

Stefano Spinucci <virgo977virgo@yahoo.it> writes:
> I searched through todo, open issues, notes etc, but I didn't find any
> document about signing commit.
>
> I'd like to read some development notes, if available, to see what
> choice are already made and what not (ie if you are going to use
> OpenPGP, or whatever else).

I don't know what plans Branko was referring to (in the mail from him,
quoted below). He may have been following some threads that I wasn't,
or something. Branko?

-Karl

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> > Branko Čibej wrote:
> > 
> > This is on the TODO list, and we have a prettz good idea about how to
> > implement it.
> > 
> > -- Brane 
> 
> 
> > Phillip Susi wrote:
> >
> >> I'd like to suggest a feature request for future versions of
> subversion.
> >>
> >> When using client certificates to authenticate with the server, it
> >> would be nice if you could also have the client digitally sign
> change
> >> sets that you commit. When the client sends the change set it could
> >> just compute an MD5 sum of the change set, sign it using the user's
> >> private key, and add it to the commit as a revision property. That
> >> way later you can validate the signed hash and be certain who made
> the
> >> change. In effect, it's a digital signature that you authorized and
> >> approved the change. This level of change control is required by
> >> certain standard engineering practices that are mandated in certain
> >> fields, such as medical devices.
> 
> 
> 
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