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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:18:20 +1030 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        mph@pobox.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcp wrappers
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901251817280.31680-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <199901250157.RAA18135@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, John Polstra wrote:

> In article <19990124151456.A218@wopr.caltech.edu>,
> Matthew Hunt  <mph@pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:30:09AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
> > 
> > > A CERT advisory just came through which seems to require distifles to
> > > be collected from a safer location
> > > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-01-Trojan-TCP-Wrappers.html
> > 
> > That's why we record the MD5 checksum of the distfiles.
> 
> That might help, except for a little cultural problem we have.  Every
> time a checksum for some port comes up bad, somebody blindly commits
> the new checksum with a message that says "Checksum changed on master
> site." :-)

That's a very good point - perhaps people will be a little bit less trusting
now that this little incident has proven what could happen :)

Kris

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