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Re: Go 1.15 Released

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Where are signatures for these binaries published?

The sha256 sums are in the table, scroll across if you're on mobile. I don't recall ever seeing signatures though

Would love to know if they're there and I've missed them.

Re: Go 1.15 Released

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Where are signatures for these binaries published?

I've always been a bit confused as to what the attack vector those protect against is for self-hosted packages (i.e. not torrents, third party hosting services, etc.). If the attacker is able to coerce the web server into sending a compromised package when you `GET https://dl.google.com/go/go1.15.src.tar.gz`, couldn't they just as easily send a compromised checksum when you `GET https://golang.org/dl/`?

Re: Go 1.15 Released

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Where are signatures for these binaries published?

I've always been a bit confused as to what the attack vector those protect against is for self-hosted packages (i.e. not torrents, third party hosting services, etc.). If the attacker is able to coerce the web server into sending a compromised package when you `GET https://dl.google.com/go/go1.15.src.tar.gz` , couldn't they just as easily send a compromised checksum when you `GET https://golang.org/dl/` ?

They are for integrity checking, not security. PGP signatures are better for the scenario you are describing.
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