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by momentoftop 1065 days ago
When I started using CL 20 years ago, libraries were stored on cliki and any malicious user could put malware there. Any source you asdf-installed was generally GPG signed and the installer automatically checked signatures against your personal trust-chain.

Learning CL back then was my first introduction to GPG (and Emacs, and Linux)

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> When I started using CL 20 years ago, libraries were stored on cliki and any malicious user could put malware there. Any source you asdf-installed was generally GPG signed and the installer automatically checked signatures against your personal trust-chain.

Which, in practice, involved downloading GPG public keys from cliki because I didn't know every single CL developer.