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Date:      Sun, 8 Jul 2001 22:11:40 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        steve <steve@clublinux.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup and security
Message-ID:  <20010708221140.A35469@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B492672.55E0ADC8@clublinux.org>; from steve@clublinux.org on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:35:14PM -0500
References:  <3B492672.55E0ADC8@clublinux.org>

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On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:35:14PM -0500, steve wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I've been installing a few ports (great tool btw), and I've noticed
> that typing 'make install' in an app directory will perform an md5
> checksum to verify that the download is legit and not corrupt.  Is there
> anything similar done when using cvsup?  Is there anyway to verify that
> the ports collection update that I'm receiving through cvsup is legit
> and not "trojaned" or altered in some other way?

Not currently.

Note to all on the list: please resist the temptation to offer
suggestions for how cvsup could be improved to achieve this unless
they're in the form of patches.  We all know how to do it, but the
code needs to be written.

Kris

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