There are a lot of moving parts in this patch, but the focus of it is on
the verification of the signature using a public key located at the
public key URL provided in the JSON payload. First, we check the
database to see if we have already downloaded the key. If so, check to
see if it has expired. If it has, redownload from the URL. If we don't
have an entry in the database, just go ahead and download the public
key. The expiration is tested each time we download the file. After
that, read the public key from the file and use it to verify the
signature. All sanity checking is done when the payload is first
received, so the verification is complete once this point is reached.
The XML has also been added since a new config option was added to
general (curl_timeout). The maximum amount of time to wait for a
download can be configured through this option, with a low value by
default.