Article 6BW3E PyPI removes PGP-signature support

PyPI removes PGP-signature support

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corbet
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The PyPI package archive has removed supportfor PGP signatures on packages.

In other words, out of all of the unique keys that had uploadedsignatures to PyPI, only 36% of them were capable of beingmeaningfully verified at the time of audit. Even if all of thosesignatures uploaded in that 3 year period of time were made by oneof those 36% of keys that are able to be meaningfully verified,that would still represent only 0.3% of all of those files.

Given all of this, the continued support of uploading PGPsignatures to PyPI is no longer defensible.

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