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		danp128 on April 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Pow, a zero-configuration Rack server ... Maybe for rubygems, not so easy for apt/rpm as they use gpg signing/verification of package indices.

FooBarWidget on April 7, 2011 [–]

RubyGems also have signing facilities. Most authors don't bother signing however because generating a key is too much trouble.

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