[ Stop sending me unnecessary Ccs.] On 00-12-26 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Debsums seems to help a little bit - you can expect to catch some > > > less-clueful intruders with it, but it doesn't help in general. > > > > debsums just uses md5sums which can be manipulated on the one hand > > and on the other hand you modify binaries so that the md5sum will > > still be the same.
> So you've effectively broken MD5 in a way that would yield useful > results (ie would allow you to replace a specific binary with another > specific binary, not with some more or less random garbage). How came > it that you weren't prominently mentionend in this month's cryptogram? Why don't you get a clue and write again what I wrote? Here's a small hint: Does the author talks about himself or everybody? If you just want to do a bit of flaming then you should use someone else as your target. If not, I assume you haven't read the whole thread. Do this and then come back again. Ciao Christian