G'day again,
Just revisiting an old thread after some more thought. Eran and I were
discussing the vulerability of librsync and rsync to deliberate attempts
to craft blocks with matching signatures but different content. It turns
out it's disturbingly easy. Here's a bit of context;
From: "Donovan
Hi all,
I'm rsyncing from FreeBSD box to MacOS X 10.2, both sides running 2.6.0.
Every time I launch rsync I get many errors like this:
mkstemp "/web/Turur?/.8.jpg.2rYUAO" failed: No such file or directory
followed by:
unexpected tag 77
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code