On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 12:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> On FC12 I found this:
> 
> # ls /usr/bin/.*.hmac
> /usr/bin/.fipscheck.hmac
> /usr/bin/.ssh.hmac
> 
> # rpm -qf /usr/bin/.*.hmac
> fipscheck-1.2.0-4.fc12.x86_64
> openssh-clients-5.2p1-31.fc12.x86_64
> 
> Could somebody provide some insight what these files are (I guess some 
> checksums) and why they are being installed to /usr/bin?

These are checksums required by FIPS-140-2 integrity verification checks
of the fipscheck and ssh binaries.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
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