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Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe
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Matthew Flaschen |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe |
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Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:31:26 -0500 |
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Ted Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 17:49 +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
>>>> I noted in recent times, servers for distro like Fedora and Debian
>>>> were compromised by hackers. Are there some measures taken for
>>>> gNewSense after those incidents?
>> I actually meant to ask how the servers hosting gNewSense are
>> protected to insure against rootkits being inserted into the
>> distribution stream.
>
> Well, all packages are PGP-signed, the preferred distribution method of
> the LiveCDs is BitTorrent (which is un-rootkitable), and the liveCD's
> available for direct download are MD5sum'd (and the MD5sums are
> PGP-signed).
I agree. The only things that really matter are:
1. Using a secure hash (e.g. SHA-256).
2. Keeping the GPG key secure.
3. Signing the hashes.
Matt Flaschen
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Koh Choon Lin, 2009/01/01
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix -, 2009/01/01
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Ted Smith, 2009/01/01
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe,
Matthew Flaschen <=
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Karl Goetz, 2009/01/01
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Ted Smith, 2009/01/01
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Karl Goetz, 2009/01/01
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Matthew Flaschen, 2009/01/01
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Ted Smith, 2009/01/01
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Matthew Flaschen, 2009/01/01
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- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense Servers Safe, Ted Smith, 2009/01/02