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Re: security update script?



On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:05:23AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> Am Fre, 2002-12-13 um 10.25 schrieb Erno Kuusela:
> > hello,
> > 
> > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> > | > i mean one that you can feed a DSA mail to, and it would check the
> > | > pgp signature and download the updated packages and verify the md5sums.
> > | 
> > | Well that's what apt-get update;apt-get upgrade is good for.
> > 
> > actually, it does not check the signature & md5sums.
> 
> True, but if someone hacked into the security server he'll modify the
> signature and md5sums,too.

I would assume that the private key is not stored on
security.debian.org, since that would make signatures completely
pointless.

-rob

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