From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 9 13: 0:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E2037B401; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FC643E4A; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:00:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0BF8F66E58; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:00:42 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Kris Kennaway , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Am I downloading what I think I am (was Re: I doubt that this affects FreeBSD, but FYI Message-ID: <20021009200042.GA91276@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20021009193436.GF84472@xor.obsecurity.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20021008174734.029e9e00@localhost> <5.1.1.6.0.20021009130608.0655d7f8@marble.sentex.ca> <20021009193436.GF84472@xor.obsecurity.org> <5.1.1.6.0.20021009154208.05e43d98@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021009154208.05e43d98@marble.sentex.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:54:27PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I really like how the ports work because they do add a bit of extra=20 > security. Like you said, its not perfect, but it does help. Actually, I= =20 > am somewhat surprised there is not some more widely used mechanism. e.g.= =20 > for integrity checksums, why not have it on a totally separate server run= =20 > on a totally separate network by totally separate admins. data one place= ,=20 > checksum another. This way to tamper with the package, you would need to= =20 > compromise two different systems. A sort of checksum clearing house ? Great idea! Let's call it /usr/ports :-) Kris --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9pIrqWry0BWjoQKURAgbuAKDwz1R4hUetQ11tdmY8jvlFGJTYXgCeLt+0 cPZM7M5cJXq/I1OQGhGOs9A= =MJzt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message