Re: [gentoo-security] Gentoo TOTALLY secure now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Locke]

Hi,

why do you extract all files in the tar archive? it doesn't make sense at all, 
you can sign und hash the tar as it is, no security will be gained by 
extracting the whole archive thats crap like your script.
only performance will be worse.

how about:

SIGNKEYID="blablubb"
MASTER="xxx/xxxxxxxor/rsync" #where the master repository lives
TEMP="/tmp/xxxxxxx/" #working directory
PORTARCHIVE="portage.tar.bz2"
MD5SUM="/usr/bin/md5sum"
GPG="/usr/bin/gpg"

${MD5SUM} "${PORTARCHIVE}" > "${PORTARCHIVE}.md5"
${GPG}  --batch -u "${SIGNKEYID}" --armor --detach-sign --output 
"${PORTARCHIVE}.sig" "${PORTARCHIVE}"

Now only some parts in emerge-webrsync have to be modified to proof the 
signature and hash to be correct before extracting the portage package or you 
can do it by hand.

And please stop your sarcastic expressions.

cu

> -/bin/mv ${FILENAME} ${FILENAME}.md5sum ${UPLOAD}
> +/usr/bin/gpg --batch -u "${SIGNKEYID}" --armor --detach-sign --output
> ${FILENAME}.gpgsig ${FILENAME} +/bin/mv ${FILENAME} ${FILENAME}.md5sum
> ${FILENAME}.gpgsig ${UPLOAD}

Am Donnerstag, 11. November 2004 03:04 schrieb Peter Simons:
> Dear Gentoo Security Experts,
>
> I am very proud to announce that I have managed to perform
> the crucial security fix assignment I have been given by
> Kurt Lieber and Dan Margolis. After I had kissed some ass,
> publicly humiliated myself, and swallowed a couple of dozen
> insults, I was deemed worthy enough to do what Kurt referred
> to as "to work with [him] to help [finding] ways to fix it".
>
> For various reasons which he didn't bother to elaborate on
> the public mailing list -- probably for good reason --, it
> turned out that my suggested solution to the fact that
> Gentoo users all over the Internet are completely
> defenseless against man-in-the-middle attacks was considered
> absolutely unfeasible.
>
> So he informed me that the ONLY WAY to do anything against
> that little glitch is to sign the daily Portage snapshot
> that's available for download with "emerge-webrsync". This
> does protect a flabbergasting total of ... I dunno ... maybe
> .1 percent of the user base, so it is better than nothing.
>
> Since all the Gentoo developers were unavailable to perform
> the necessary modifications to the snapshot creation script
> -- for the last 1.5 years -- he kindly sent it to me as a
> MIME attachment so that I could "write the code".
>
> Needless to say I was thrilled.
>
> Finally my chance to prove that I am not an idiot, but an
> idiot who also contributes to Gentoo!
>
> I managed to software-engineer the necessary "patch" to make
> the script generate a full-blown GPG signature for the
> snapshot archive, and I would like to post the diffs here so
> that the procedure can be peer-reviewed.
>
> So without further ado, here is my contribution:
>
> --- snapshots-create.sh
> +++ snapshots-create.sh
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>  #
>  # Define locations for stuff
>  #
> -
> +SIGNKEYID="41BC28FE99089D72"
>  MASTER="xxx/xxxxxxxor/rsync" #where the master repository lives
>  TEMP="/tmp/xxxxxxx/" #working directory
>  #UPLOAD="/xx/xx/xx/xxx/upload/" #temp location for testing
> @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
>
>  /bin/tar --exclude=CVS -cjf ${FILENAME} portage
>  /usr/bin/md5sum ${FILENAME} > ${FILENAME}.md5sum
> -/bin/mv ${FILENAME} ${FILENAME}.md5sum ${UPLOAD}
> +/usr/bin/gpg --batch -u "${SIGNKEYID}" --armor --detach-sign --output
> ${FILENAME}.gpgsig ${FILENAME} +/bin/mv ${FILENAME} ${FILENAME}.md5sum
> ${FILENAME}.gpgsig ${UPLOAD}
>
> Now, this is mission-critical software and you really need
> to be a top-notch security specialist to do this. So to make
> sure there are no problems integrating the script into the
> mind-blowingly fragile Gentoo main server setup, I have to
> make a few comments to make sure nothing gets messed up
> here.
>
> Kurt, I realize that submitting my homework as a diff makes
> matters more complicated for you. You have to save that
> snippet above to a file and then use the utility patch(1).
> If you have _any_ problems with this, please don't hesitate
> to let me know, and I'll send you the complete script in
> private e-mail.
>
> Before you can use the hardened version of this software,
> you have to customize it. Since I have NO ACCESS TO THE
> GENTOO SERVERS, the script is tailored for my own system.
> The casual readers of this list might want to skip the
> following paragraphs, because it's getting really technical
> now for a moment.
>
> Everybody else please look closely at the first chunk.
> You'll find a line like this:
>
>   SIGNKEYID="41BC28FE99089D72"
>
> This statement assigns a variable with the ID of the key
> that is going to be used later in the script to generate the
> cryptographic signature. I chose to use a variable here so
> that the key ID can be configured at the top of the script,
> instead of burying that parameter amidst 78 lines of
> comments, whitespace, and several complex calls to tar(1)
> and other Unix magic. I realize that using a variable adds a
> level of indirection which might have performance
> implications that are difficult to predict. Kurt, should
> this version be too slow to manage the job in time on the
> machines, I'll remove that again, okay?
>
> My point about that line is, though: This key ID will NOT
> WORK on your machine! The reason is that to issue a
> signature, you have to use the secret key of the GPG
> key-pair. So although you can download a key with that ID
> from every public key server, this will not work! You really
> need the secret key.
>
> To make the script work nonetheless you have to:
>
>  (1) Start appropriate text editing software. On most Gentoo
>      machines, the tool nano(1) can be used for this.
>
>  (2) Repeatedly hit the cursor-down button on your keyboard
>      until that white rectangle you're seeing is right over
>      that SIGNKEYID line from above.
>
>  (3) Stop hitting cursor-down now!
>
>  (4) If the white rectangle has moved past that line
>      already, then you have to hit CTRL-Z, then enter
>
>       kill -9 %1
>
>      and go back to step (1) and try again.
>
>  (5) Don't give up.
>
>  (6) If you have successfully navigated the white rectangle
>      to the line, hit cursor-right repeatedly until it has
>      reached the point right after the first double quote.
>
>  (7) Don't give up.
>
>  (8) Switch into overwrite mode and enter the ID of your
>      secret key.
>
>  (9) Save the modified script and exit the text editing
>      software. I'd love to give more details on this step,
>      but unfortunately the exact procedure is implementation
>      defined.
>
> After you have successfully edited the key ID to match the
> one your secret key has, you should be ready to try it out.
> Just enter "snapshots-create.sh" and see what happens.
>
> What do you mean it doesn't work?
>
> Hmmm. Does "./snapshots-create.sh" work?
>
> Doesn't either?
>
> Hmmm. Ah, wait. Enter "chmod +x snapshots-create.sh".
>
> Good, now run the "./snapshots-create.sh" command again.
>
> STILL doesn't work?
>
> What does it say on the screen?
>
> Nothing?
>
> Hahaha, now I got it. No, no, that's perfectly alright. It
> will take a while for the script to return; that thing runs
> a while. Yes, security-related software does require lots
> and lots of CPU time; that really can't be helped in any
> way, so please be patient.
>
> Now, if the script has returned at last you will find the
> following files in the Gentoo download area:
>
>   portage-20041109.tar.bz2
>   portage-20041109.tar.bz2.gpgsig
>   portage-20041109.tar.bz2.md5sum
>
> Don't be concerned if the filenames don't match exactly.
> These numbers depend on the t-coordinate of the system the
> script is run on; that is a kind of unique hash to guarantee
> that no filename collisions occur.
>
> If this has succeeded, then you have a TOTALLY secure Gentoo
> distribution now; there really is nothing left to worry
> about.
>
> Just execute "emerge sync", wait until it comes back and ...
> everything still works, no hacker has injected any modified
> /usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass file into your machine,
> you are totally SAFE!
>
> Of course, I wouldn't install any new software for the next
> 1.5 years because there remains a small, insignificant
> chance that doing this will erase your hard disk, install
> Red Hat Linux, or do other horrible things.
>
> But you know how the old saying goes: Never change a running
> system!
>
> Exactly.
>
>         WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING
>
> My instructions have been written for the final version of
> this hardening mechanism. Right now, the "totally secure"
> bit is not quite accurate because I still haven't gotten to
> "patch" any of the Gentoo tools to verify that signature.
>
> Or, to be perfectly honest, I have gotten to but didn't
> manage.
>
> There is some complexity to the task that wasn't quite
> understood when I agreed to do all this for Gentoo, because
> before I can call GPG to verify the signature, I have to
> execute
>
>   source /etc/make.conf
>
> to import some more variables, so that the user can
> switch authentication on/off, set the path to the official
> Gentoo key and all that. And frankly, it is just too damn
> difficult.
>
> Anyway, I promise I will do that ASAP. Let's see ... we have
> 2004 now ... Man, that is gonna take a while. Because, as it
> happens, I have other stuff to do, too, you know? It's not
> like I am getting paid for all this!
>
> And besides: I simply don't give a shit.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Peter
>
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