For one thing, I think you're quite confused. Unless I'm missing something,

I'm not noticing the FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux kernel developers "signing"

their code, or doing anything particularly differently from the OpenBSD

developers. Please explain.
You've also conveniently ignored bofh's question. Why do you see this as

being an issue? What risks does PKI mitigate? Did you just vaguely read

somewhere in an advertisement about the supposed security benefits?
On Dec 5, 2007 5:22 PM, new_guy  wrote:
> Nick Guenther wrote:

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> >

> > Well, there's the MD5 files (e.g.

> > http://openbsd.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/i386/MD5).

> > but yeah, for the most part OpenBSD doesn't need it.

> > -Nick

> >

>

> Could you explain in more detail? Why doesn't OpenBSD need to use pgp

> keys?

> Really, I'm not trying to start anything, I just want to understand.

> Especially since everyone else seems to do it. FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux

> Kernel, etc... they all employ some sort of PKI mechanism... so how does

> OpenBSD handle these sort of things?

>

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JI