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Proposal A: Keep It Simple Stupid And Start with Something (KISSASS)
1. Use current existing infrastructure, enforce signing.
Have rubygems.org reject gem-pushes that don't contain a signature.
2. Add a field in the gemspec 'public_key_https_url' that the author
must point to his public key. If he doesn't then boo, nobody will
be able to validate his gem.
3. When 'gem install' encounters an unknown key it displays the URL
and it is up to the user to say "Yes, I want to import this" or "No".
4. Deploy. Start thinking how to improve the solution.
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