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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thank you Shimi. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I also came across a couple threads in my research:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/users/robbat2/tree-signing-gleps/">http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/users/robbat2/tree-signing-gleps/</a>
and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38363">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38363</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>These (from back in 2006/2008) discuss potential changes to
make the Gentoo software distribution system more secure. Does Portage verify
various different hash signatures on the source files as a result of these
recommendations or is this something Portage has always done? Does anyone know
if anything (else) ever came of these proposals? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I’m new to the Gentoo community and am playing catch-up in regards
to what’s going on. Thank you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>-John<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> shimi [mailto:shimi@...] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gentoo-security@g.o<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Butterworth, John W.<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gentoo-security] portage/rsync question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:26 PM,
Butterworth, John W. <<a href="mailto:jbutterworth@...">jbutterworth@...</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:.5in'>Hi. I have a security-related question for
Portage/rsync: <o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>If someone makes a change to a copy of a program
(say a backdoor added to apache) hosted on a public mirror, will the sync’ing
between the public mirror and the main rotation mirror determine that it's
corrupted (via 'bad' checksum) on the public-mirror side and replace it? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>If it's hosted @ Gentoo, if the
main server is intact, the next sync will overwrite the mirror-local copy<br>
<br>
If it's not hosted on on Gentoo's mirror, Gentoo's sync'ing is unrelated (and I
understand that's the scenario you refer to)<br>
<br>
Anyways, unless the *ebuild* was *also* poisoned (which can't happen by a
cracker changing stuff at <a href="http://apache.org">apache.org</a>), when you
try to *emerge* the package, emerge will fail because Portage verifies various
different hash signatures on the source files - which are embedded in the
portage package tree [1].<br>
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HTH,<br>
<br>
-- Shimi<br>
<br>
[1] Try: cat /usr/portage/www-servers/apache/Manifest<br>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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