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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:01:30 -0500
From:      James Keener <jim@jimkeener.com>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, Clint Armstrong <clint@clintarmstrong.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Signed Checksums for release archives
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That doesn't help if a mirror is compromised or control is lost. Those already downloaded installers can't update their mirror list.

Jim

On January 10, 2016 2:54:44 PM EST, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Clint Armstrong wrote:
>
>> The signed checksums linked on that page only include checksums for
>the
>> .img and .iso images. Not for the .txz archives.
>
>Ah I see.  But nevertheless, these .txz's are almost always accessed
>from the 
>installer, which selects only approved mirror from well-defined list,
>and 
>connects to them over TLS...
>
>
>-- 
>Sincerely,
>D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE,
>DM3-RIPN]
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>]
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Subject: Re: Signed Checksums for release archives
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My use case is for creating Jails. I'm trying to script downloading and
extracting an archive for a jail and would like to be able to verify the
download.

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 3:01 PM James Keener <jim@jimkeener.com> wrote:

> That doesn't help if a mirror is compromised or control is lost. Those
> already downloaded installers can't update their mirror list.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On January 10, 2016 2:54:44 PM EST, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Clint Armstrong wrote:
>>
>>  The signed checksums linked on that page only include checksums for the
>>>  .img and .iso images. Not for the .txz archives.
>>>
>>
>> Ah I see.  But nevertheless, these .txz's are almost always accessed from the
>> installer, which selects only approved mirror from well-defined list, and
>> connects to them over TLS...
>>
>>
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>



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