Re: md5 checksums
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 07:16:01PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> That's what Tiger calls 'signatures'. It's pretty easy to do at the moment,
> but I have not updated signatures for Debian for quite some time. If you
> intend to keep a database you also have to consider that for every patch
> (i.e. security update in a DSA) you need to regenerate it..
I was thinking of several forms of this, to do it properly on a WORM
and a nightly cronjob that could highlight differences and changes
throught the preceding day.
> Well, we discussed about this but no-one stepped over to implement it. I
> believe the cron package maintainer would be very grateful if someone
> implemented a 'checksecurity' package which fixed all its current bugs
> (#102186, #171980, #177120, #31902, #46779, #54376, #59809, #138484,
> #154390, #163813, #176090) taking over its maintenance.
I agreed to take over this checksecurity package, when the maintain
finds the time to split it out from cron. There was some discussion
about it recently upon debian-devel.
I'll mail Steve Greenland about it tonight to see how it's going, or
if I can help.
Steve
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