Re: deltarpm usefulness?

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> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:03:50PM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> I do think we should drop drpms or make them more useful, but I don't
> think there's any security angle here. (see below)
> 
> drpms work by downloading the delta, then using it + the version you
> have installed to recreate the signed rpm (just like you downloaded the
> full signed update) and then the gpg signature is checked of that full rpm,
> just like one you downloaded. If the drpm is tampered with it won't
> reassemble and it will fall back to the full signed rpm.

Sorry to resurrect this thread.

Another issue - which is not per-se a security issue but it's still a problem - is that deltarpm uses md5 checksums pervasively.  They're everywhere.  And it uses its own implementation of md5 which doesn't respect FIPS, so even when the user has *explicitly* configured their system to not use md5 for anything security-relevant, libdeltarpm won't know or care.  
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