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From: Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:18:23
Message-Id: 20071126130557.75ca7d7c@pascal.spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions by Aniruddha
1 On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:53:47 +0100
2 Aniruddha <zentooist@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Hi all
5 >
6 > I want to set up a secure binhost server for my customers and the
7 > Gentoo community.What is the best way to achieve this? Or more
8 > specifically I am looking for ways to ensure that binaries arrive
9 > untampered. I noticed there isn't any md5sum verification for
10 > binaries in portage. Which other ways are there to ensure the
11 > binhost's integrity?
12 >
13 > Regards,
14 >
15 > Aniruddha
16 >
17
18 md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest
19
20 dan@pascal ~ $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/md5src count=512
21 512+0 records in
22 512+0 records out
23 262144 bytes (262 kB) copied, 0.041335 s, 6.3 MB/s
24 dan@pascal ~ $ md5sum /tmp/md5src
25 966019983a079e2bf03566d1f0eca061 /tmp/md5src
26
27 if you want to verify your own download, you could download the file
28 here:
29 http://spore.ath.cx/~dan/md5src
30 and check to see if you get the same checksum.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions Aniruddha <zentooist@×××××.com>