[racket] require url?

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sat Apr 9 10:00:51 EDT 2011

About a minute ago, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> 5 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> > Eli Barzilay wrote at 04/09/2011 12:12 AM:
> > > There is a good solution for this that I recently saw -- the way that
> > > chrome extensions are distributed.  The summary of what I understand
> > > from it is: an extension is a zip file with a prefix holding two
> > > things -- a public key for the extension, and a signature for the zip
> > > file that was done using the private key.
> > 
> > Isn't this just old-fashioned code signing.  I think people talked about 
> > it for PLaneT multiple times in the past, before Chrome existed.  Or am 
> > I misunderstanding?
> 
> I don't know wearher it's old-fashioned or not, butthe thing thatI've
> never seen before is using a single key per package and trusting itfor
> further updates -- which is very different from the usual key per
> person that requires trusting the channel you're getting it through.

Oh, and I don't remember any concrete planet suggestions on this.
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