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From: Rob Kaper <rkaper@ism.nl>
To: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] possible trojan in openssh-3.4p1
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:39:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208011539.05025.rkaper@ism.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wxx8z3q1z3s.fsf@nommo.uio.no>

On Thursday 01 August 2002 15:35, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>   if the checksum differ, which it would have, emerge will abort.
>   although, emerge logs do sound like a very good idea.

For optimum security, emerge should check checksums from different locations. 
One or two trusted servers (often even the same as the one where the files 
reside, although that might not be true for gentoo) can be compromised too 
easily.

Rob



  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-01 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-01  8:37 [gentoo-dev] possible trojan in openssh-3.4p1 Rob Kaper
2002-08-01  8:46 ` Rob Kaper
2002-08-01  9:18 ` Vitaly Kushneriuk
2002-08-01 10:10   ` Eric Noack
2002-08-01 10:34   ` Terje Kvernes
2002-08-01 10:47     ` Rob Kaper
2002-08-01 10:56       ` Terje Kvernes
     [not found]         ` <200208011505.42361.bastiaf@gmx.de>
2002-08-01 13:35           ` Terje Kvernes
2002-08-01 13:39             ` Rob Kaper [this message]
2002-08-01 21:17               ` Spider
2002-08-02  7:36               ` Johannes Findeisen
2002-08-02 12:18                 ` [gentoo-dev] " A.Waschbuesch
2002-08-02 12:02                   ` Johannes Findeisen
2002-08-03 10:40                     ` [gentoo-dev] " A.Waschbuesch
2002-08-03 16:09                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jean-Michel Smith
2002-08-03 17:19                   ` [gentoo-dev] " A.Waschbuesch

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