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Re: [Security Advisory] Backdoor Discovered inImmunity Debugger
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:05:06 -0400
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:25:11 +0200, monikerd said:
However off course the md5 hashes don't really say anything. Except that you would be able to verify that your copy is the one you obtained.
If you are unsure if your copy is the one you obtained, you have bigger issues. ;) An MD5 hash *will* however verify (to a fair extent, modulo intended attacks) if the copy you have is identical to the copy that was originally shipped (if they don't match, it shows that the copy you obtained isn't the one originally shipped). Yes, I'm splitting hairs here - but in cryptography, such hairs are often the basis of the security. So it's important to keep straight which bits are which....
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