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Date:      Wed, 04 Dec 2013 13:09:35 -0800
From:      Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
To:        Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 10.0-BETA4 bsdinstall zfs encryption broken
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In-Reply-To: <20131204201312.GA39227@anubis.morrow.me.uk>
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On 12/4/2013 12:13 PM, Ben Morrow wrote:
> Quoth Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>:
>>
>> The procedure I use is to take the existing ISO and...
>>
>> 1. use mdconfig to access it
>> 2. use mount_cd9660 to mount it
>> 3. use rsync to copy the contents to a local dir
>
> It's more secure to use tar for these three steps. Filesystems generally
> aren't hardened against malicious input.

I'm curious about this statement.  What extra security would tar get 
you?  Tar would be faster, but I can't think of how it would be more 
secure since it's all going to end up on the same filesystem either way.




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