Re: CERT Advisory CA-2002-28 Trojan Horse Sendmail Distribution

Sam Halliday <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
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On 10 Oct 2002 12:10:03 -0600 Ken Dyke <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I know how.  And now it is in the mail archives if it wasn't before.
> Files can also be checked with
> md5sum foo.bar
> then check the hash against the published md5 signature.  The md5
> checksum for gnupg can be found on http://www.gnupg.org/download.html

but this is insecure... if the ftp site has been hacked, chances are
that the md5sum has been also... only trust md5sums which have been
signed.

Sam
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