Re: online cheksum verification for FreeBSD

2014-01-28 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014, at 22:41, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > However locally stored > checksums are not of use as they can > be manipulated arbitrarily. > This shouldn't be a concern when using signed packages, correct? Or if that's still a problem couldn't we just teach `pkg check` to confirm si

Re: online cheksum verification for FreeBSD

2014-01-28 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
A respective tool for Debian based distros has just been released (http://www.elstel.org/debcheckroot). It takes a somewhat simpler approach than its rpm-based counterpart and may serve as a prove of concept. The only thing that is required is a sha/md5sum list for each package (as private keys