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> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:46:25PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> > I've come up with a quick n' dirty Perl script to use portage's MD5s in a |
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> > tripwire fashion. |
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> Didn't you know about qpkg? qpkg already does this, qpkg -c checks mtime |
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> and md5sum for all packages. With -v it will list the exact files that |
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> mismatch.. The only thing that's lacking is checking the integrity of |
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> the md5sums themselves with some kind of signature. |
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> Regards, |
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> Michel Wilson. |
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What about qpkq being compromised itself. As I understand it, in |
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tripwire, cryptographic keys are used for the policy file. |
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Couldn't an attacker mess around with which files qpkq scans? |
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Tom |
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