Re: xz backdoor

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 2:08 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 07:00:37PM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > wow: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/
> >
> > I think at this point we clearly cannot trust xz upstream anymore and should
> > probably fork the project.
>
> I kind of agree here, though it saddens me to say it.  Any commit or
> release by "Jia Tan" or "Hans Jansen" [1] is suspect until proven
> otherwise, and those go back 2 or more years.
>

I've been rolling in my head for a while now the idea of picking at
things where we use gzip or xz to move to zstd where possible, given
the benefits of the algorithm. This compromise has kind of raised the
profile for me to seriously consider looking into it.




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