From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 14 13: 0:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED20437B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:00:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2EL0Q303206; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:00:26 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Nate Williams Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <20010314130025.A3031@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010314105918.A5204@roaming.cacheboy.net> <35525.984597779@critter> <20010314210758.A2405@roaming.cacheboy.net> <15023.53743.215996.538067@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15023.53743.215996.538067@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:17:51PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:17:51PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > I think everyone's is forgetting the 'real' reason for SITE-MD5. It's > existance is not one of 'trust', but the reason to do this is because it > allows the ports checker (and mirrors) to determine if a file has > changed. Not whether or not it's trustable, not whether or not someone > has hacked the server, but whether it has changed or not. The checker can *easily* keep a list of files sizes and date stamps and compare that. One would get as much trust from `ls -l' as they would "SITE MD5 filename". -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message