Re: Arch Linux security is still poor....

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I don't think we need any security team for Arch. New packages are
>> released within a week of their updates. GPG signing and md5sum
>> verification is a must though.
>
> md5sum verification has ALWAYS been done
>

In a security context, verification of files installed by a package
_after installation_ would be nice.  i.e. "pacman --verify
/usr/sbin/sshd" would tell me if the md5sum (or sha1sum, etc) of my
/usr/sbin/sshd matches that of the official package.

Jared


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