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On Sunday 07 September 2003 21:43, Jan Krueger wrote: |
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> No. I trust you. But trusting you doesnt mean that the ebuild you checked |
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> in to the tree arrives at my hardrive unmodified. There is no way for you |
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> as a human beeing to garantee this to me. Instead it should be expected |
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> that the ebuild gets modified (by faulty software/hardware/network/whatever |
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> or by a malicious attacker). So this must be taken care of. |
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I give you an example: |
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With so many gentoo-rsync hosts spread all over and the use of unencripted |
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rsync transfer a man in the middle attack (eg. by arp-spoofing or whatever), |
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that inserts an malicious ebuild along with digest and Manifest into the |
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rsync stream is very much imaginable to me. |
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So i suggest to, as quickly as possible, establish the infrastucture to do |
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rsync over ssl/ssl or other secure transport. |
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Jan |
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