[Distutils] Malicious packages on PyPI

[Matt Joyce]

Or start doing signed pgp for package maintainers and build a transitive
trust model.

On Jun 1, 2017 8:14 PM, wrote:

Force packages to match their higher level import namespace in future major
Python versions and PEP it.

On Jun 1, 2017 7:37 PM, "Noah Kantrowitz" <noah at coderanger.net> wrote:


> On Jun 1, 2017, at 4:00 PM, Nick Timkovich <prometheus235 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> This issue was also brought up in January at https://github.com/pypa/pypi-
legacy/issues/585 then just as after the initial "typosquatting PyPI"
report (June 2016) it's met with resounding silence. Attacking the
messenger doesn't seem like a winning move from a security standpoint.
>
> Can we come up with a plan to address the underlying issue and protect
users?

If you have a systemic solution I'm sure we would love to hear it :)

--Noah



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