linux-kernel - Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

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Date:	Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:47:16 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:25:26AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> Had debsums told me that /bin/bash was modified I would have been quite 
> convinced.
> 

Keep in mind that debsums is trivially easy to circument.  That just
checks against an md5 checksum stored in a text file in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums.  If someone modified /bin/bash it would
easy enough for them to modify the relevant md5sums file.

     	    	     	       	   	    - Ted
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