Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:00:26 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <20010314130025.A3031@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <15023.53743.215996.538067@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:17:51PM -0700 References: <20010314105918.A5204@roaming.cacheboy.net> <35525.984597779@critter> <20010314210758.A2405@roaming.cacheboy.net> <15023.53743.215996.538067@nomad.yogotech.com>
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:17:51PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> I think everyone's is forgetting the 'real' reason for SITE-MD5. It's
> existance is not one of 'trust', but the reason to do this is because it
> allows the ports checker (and mirrors) to determine if a file has
> changed. Not whether or not it's trustable, not whether or not someone
> has hacked the server, but whether it has changed or not.
The checker can *easily* keep a list of files sizes and date stamps and
compare that. One would get as much trust from `ls -l' as they would
"SITE MD5 filename".
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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