Re: [OT] Re: Knocking Microsoft

[Cedric Blancher <blancher () cartel-securite fr>]

Le sam 28/02/2004 à 10:31, Martin Mačok a écrit :
> > % apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
> > % apt-get install apache-ssl
> Will it transfer the data in a secure way? (SSL?)

What's the point securing publicly available data transfer with SSL ?
The only thing that is important regarding to security for remote
software installation and/or upgrade is archive authentication and
integrity check after reception so one can avoid trojaned stuff.

> Will it verify the data after being downloaded? (PGP signature?)

Can be configured to do so. BTW, sadly, by default, only MD5 is checked.

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