Re: deltarpm usefulness?

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On Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 07:43:02AM -0000, Daniel Alley wrote:
> 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.  

They are used as a consistency check, it might as well use crc32.
So I don't see why FIPS is a concern for you.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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