>>"Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> Boot from said trusted CD, run said trusted dpkg, to
Adam> calculate the md5sums of the files.
Brian> Which requires scanning each and every *.deb file, in order to
Brian> calculate the expected checksums of each individual file. What is the
Brian> performance lost here?
Not quite. This only requires processing _installed_
packages. And yes, there is a rtadeoff; Disk space for the archives,
transfers, and CDs' vs processing when a system's integrity is under
suspicion. The latter ought to be a rarer event, and shall not
affect every user of Debian.
manoj
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I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do? Raoul Duke
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