One way is to just use PGP like you said, which is the only real solution that is generally accepted today. I really wish there was something more formal, as I made a case in Paranoia, NIH, and Beyond about this very issue. There's no easy solution, though, and if it is to be implemented at all, it would have to be put in place at a high level like CPAN.

It is nice that the Perl community is so trusting and open about things, that the risks are very low, but this may change. While living in a community where nobody has to lock their doors may be nice, locking your doors doesn't destroy the community. Being "robbed" might, though, and it would cause people to be more suspect of their friends and associates. Once trust is violated, it is hard to regain. If there was some mechanism to prevent that breach of trust in the first place, we might all be better off.

In reply to Re: Muse on Digital Signatures in Perl Modules by tadman
in thread Muse on Digital Signatures in Perl Modules by John M. Dlugosz

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