Re: Secure network installs

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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 06:30:15AM +0800, John Morris wrote:
> If you're ultra-paranoid, it's conceivable that someone upstream of the
> remote location could hijack the install, substituting the install images
> and RPMs (are the digital signatures even checked by the installer?).  Might
> take quite a lot of work, but it's doable.  Am I really that paranoid?  :)

I think having the installer check the signatures would be a better answer
to the paranoia, yeah?


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Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
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