On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:37:17AM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-03-03, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > > This is where I disagree. When a checksum algorithm is compromised (and > > MD5 *is* compromised), things only ever get worse, not better. Indeed, > > MD5 preimage attacks are pretty hard *today*. But switching to something > > more secure in preparation for the day when MD5 will be easily cracked > > by every script kiddo around is *not* overkill. > > Sure, but to be honest, not even all packages managed to generate md5sums > 'till now (with some quite core, omnipresent packages missing) so it seems out > of scope for squeeze. Maybe squeeze+1.
True but debsums can address these issues by system administrator touch-ups as documented in manpage using: * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90debsums (debsums >= 2.0.7) * debsums_init(8) (debsums >= 2.0.34 @ 2007) Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100303155453.ga5...@osamu.debian.net
