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Jasmine CHUA wrote: |
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> I am concerned with the security aspects of running an `emerge sync`. Is |
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> there any way to verify the packages to be downloaded from running an emerge |
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> sync? What if the gentoo rsync server gets hacked? Understanding that each |
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> ebuild comes with a md5 digest and all packages are safe in this manner but |
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> i see that still does not override the possibility that the rsync server may |
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> get hacked? |
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A rsync mirror compromise could definitely lead to a security problem. |
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This is a known problem that is being worked on, and some kind of |
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digital signing check will be built into the ebuild release / rsync |
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process someday... |
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-K |
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