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Re: Compromising Debian Repositories



On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 02:25:03PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 10:51:08AM +0200, Volker Birk wrote:
> > Now I'm surprised ;-) I think, this is not a matter of security of
> > checksums here. Of course, only a digital signature will do, or at least
> > a MAC.
> Huh, what? Aren't MACs always symmetric?

Yes, they are.

> How do MACs fit in here?

Depends on who should be able to check.

Yours,
VB.
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