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Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt



On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:30:55 +0200, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
wrote:
>The downside is that anything that doesn't work on entire .debs is
>very likely to change them at the byte stream level (you only need to
>use slightly different zlib versions or parameters).  This means that
>the chain of cryptographic hashes that guard against malicious mirror
>or network operators breaks. 8-(

Since having cryptographic hashes is very very low on the priority
list of the people in Power over Debian, I wouldn't care too much.

Greetings
Marc

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