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Re: Bug#499897: preventing replay attacks against the security archive



Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Eugene V. Lyubimkin:
> 
>> Should this be incorporated into apt in Lenny? It's not hard to
>> apply the patch from Thomas, but it doesn't address feature that apt
>> should not accept Release files without 'Valid-Until' entry after
>> seeing it once earlier.
> 
> Does it use the real-time clock, or does it record Valid-Until
> regressions in some other way?
> 
> If it uses the real-time clock, it doesn't fix the issue because our
> users typically haven't got a secure time source.
Yes, it does. I doubt that apt has something else that can be treated as more
secure (time?) source.
Suggestions?

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian APT contributor

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