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Kasper Dupont wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> 
>>All the .sign
>>files are good for is to check for rogue mirrors.
> 
> I believe I can also use them to check against a MiM
> attack against my connection to kernel.org.
> 

You can, assuming you have a trust path to the key.

	-hpa

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