DPI908 Research Paper Checklist

For the 2012 Fall Semester, your research paper should investigate how Fedora secures its Build and Release system. The research paper should be about 20 pages long typed document and must include at least the following Sections:

General Overview of the Fedora Build and Release process

Getting Program source files

Building locally from source using the rpmbuild system

Building locally using the mock built system

Using the koji build system

rpm package review process

Software release process
- rpm signing
- rpm repository

Software update process

For each phase of the build and release processes

identify what security measures has been taken to safeguard the integrity of the software

comment on the advantage/disadvantage/weakness of the security measure

Report on

your findings

your comments

your recommendations

Conclusion

Summarize the overall security state of the Fedora Build and Release process, qualifying the risks you have identified to provide an overall risk assessment.

Citation

Cite all sources used in MLA style.

Submission

Please upload your research report in PDF format to Blackboard on or before your 0.3 release due date.

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