Re: ftp.gnu.org cracked
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:10:36AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 05:29:14AM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > > 2) Any unsigned sources in ftp.gnu.org could have been trojaned during
> > > > the March-July period, and most of GNU packages have their corresponding
> > > > packages in the Debian archive.
> > >
> > > The current evidence suggests that this has not happened.
>
> FWIW, I got texinfo-4.6.tar.gz in July from a ftp.gnu.org mirror.
> There appears to have been no change between to it then and now:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 3000 1892091 Jun 11 03:19 texinfo-4.6.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joy joy 1892091 2003-07-11 15:31 texinfo_4.6.orig.tar.gz
>
> The md5sum of both files is 5730c8c0c7484494cca7a7e2d7459c64
>
> Now, it's possible that it was tampered with before the mirror even got to
> it... I suppose I could ask the upstream maintainer to confirm the md5sum
> from their local copy?
>
> (Please Cc: any replies, I'm not subscribed.)
There is a cryptographically signed README on ftp.gnu.org which lists
checksums for the files that GNU have been able to verify. You can check
against that.
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- mdz
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