On Monday 30 May 2005 01:58, Petri Damsten wrote:
> I think that KNewStuffSecure doesn't work very well with zip files (adds a
> layer to just complicate things). 

agreed, though for now it may be workable as is?

> I was thinking more like jar signing: 
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/tooldocs/win32/jarsigner.html
...
> Could KNewStuffSecure support also this kind of signing (No packaging data
> to yet another archive).

certainly. a patch to KNewStuffSecure is all that's needed. ;) 

btw, i'm going to compile a list of needs and wants for GHNS (get hot new 
stuff) and start a thread on kde-core-devel about for kde4 once i (we?) move 
over to kde4 devel.

> I think that KOffice also uses zip files to save documents (kostore). Do
> they have some way of signing documents?

not that i know of.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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