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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: William Roberts <bill.c.roberts@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: signed tarballs
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:43:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2130568.dMp5T6juCr@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFftDdovoD5zoRTtnDj39Jz0Wxej8a=+o_ftR-A4NN5AMu1yjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, April 13, 2017 4:30:57 PM EDT William Roberts wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2017 13:28, "Christian Rebischke" <Chris.Rebischke@archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:03:54AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > I added a sha256sum to the release announcement yesterday. You can also
> > access the people page via https.
> 
> Thanks, but as I stated before. SHA256 and https doesn't ensure a
> non-malicious tarball. Only a signed tarball can achieve this.
> 
> That's not true, he's providing you a detached signature via this
> mechanism. You just need to check the sha256sum before extraction.

Yeah, MD5 = collisions. SHA-1 = collisions. SHA-2 no known collisions. NIST 
found during the SHA-3 competition that SHA-2 was much more robust than 
previously thought.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-13 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-06 23:31 signed tarballs Christian Rebischke
2017-04-07  1:27 ` William Roberts
2017-04-07 23:41   ` Christian Rebischke
2017-04-07 23:52     ` William Roberts
2017-04-08 12:53 ` Paul Moore
2017-04-10 18:51   ` Steve Grubb
2017-04-10 18:35 ` Steve Grubb
2017-04-11 10:44   ` Christian Rebischke
2017-04-11 14:03     ` Steve Grubb
2017-04-13 20:28       ` Christian Rebischke
2017-04-13 20:30         ` William Roberts
2017-04-13 20:43           ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2017-04-13 20:56           ` Christian Rebischke
2017-04-13 21:00             ` William Roberts
2017-04-13 21:05               ` Paul Moore
2017-04-13 21:08                 ` William Roberts
2017-04-13 21:17                   ` Paul Moore
2017-04-13 22:39                     ` William Roberts
2017-04-13 21:22                 ` Christian Rebischke
2017-04-13 22:45                   ` William Roberts
2017-04-13 23:17                     ` Steve Grubb
2017-04-13 22:25                 ` Steve Grubb
2017-04-14 13:06                   ` Paul Moore
2017-04-14 13:38                     ` Steve Grubb
2017-04-14 23:03                       ` Christian Rebischke

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