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Re:Signing .jars is not worth the effort by CamouflagedKiwi on Sunday July 26, 2020 @04:35PM (#23959990)
Conceptually you could do that, if you were willing to only use dependencies from people you trusted that closely. That can only be a very, very tiny minority of people using Maven.
Re:Signing .jars is not worth the effort by chrisseaton on Sunday July 26, 2020 @06:20PM (#23960618)
> if you were willing to only use dependencies from people you trusted that closely

No that's what makes it a network. There's a transitive closure, so you can also use dependencies from someone trusted by someone you trust, or by someone trusted by someone trusted by someone you trust, and so on.

Re:Signing .jars is not worth the effort by jandrese on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:22PM (#23961492)
But then it only takes one person trusting a bad guy to bring down the network.