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From: blancher at cartel-securite.fr (Cedric Blancher)
Subject: [OT] Re: Knocking Microsoft

Le sam 28/02/2004 ? 10:31, Martin Ma?ok a ?crit :
> > % apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
> > % apt-get install apache-ssl
> Will it transfer the data in a secure way? (SSL?)

What's the point securing publicly available data transfer with SSL ?
The only thing that is important regarding to security for remote
software installation and/or upgrade is archive authentication and
integrity check after reception so one can avoid trojaned stuff.

> Will it verify the data after being downloaded? (PGP signature?)

Can be configured to do so. BTW, sadly, by default, only MD5 is checked.

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