Re: Security of netinstall?

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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:43:36PM +0000, Troels Arvin wrote:
> When I install Fedora from a netinstall image:
> Given that I initially
>  - check the SHA256 checksum of the Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-23.iso
>    file
>  - check the GPG signature of the file which contained the checksum
>    (the Fedora-Server-23-x86_64-CHECKSUM file)
> Then:
> How is the authenticity of the rest of the installation sources ensured? 
> I mean: During the installation, the installer in the netinstall image 
> will pull a number of packages from somewhere on the web; how does it 
> insure that the packages pulled are really the unaltered Fedora packages?

Check this out for some reassurance:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998#c54


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