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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:57:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        mph@pobox.com
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcp wrappers
Message-ID:  <199901250157.RAA18135@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990124151456.A218@wopr.caltech.edu>
References:  <19990125093009.55592@welearn.com.au>

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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." :-)

John
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
                                                            -- H. L. Mencken

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