Just to clarify things, the artefact published on the apache maven
repository are signed (well, to be exact, most are signed. See [1]
for the current status)
However, maven doesn't [yet] validate the signature when downloading
the artefacts (ivy neither). See [2]
[1] http://people.apache.org/~henkp/repo/
[2] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2477
2008/9/17 Noel J. Bergman <noel@devtech.com>:
> Dan,
>
> It is a policy matter, not a legal one. And enforcing artifact signing
> would address this and other crucial, fatal, flaws in Maven's repository
> management.
>
> I still maintain that unless Maven makes swift strides to enforce signing,
> the ASF should ban the use of the Maven repository for all ASF projects, and
> go so far as to remove all of our artifacts.
>
> --- Noel
>
>
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