Why go to all this troubble?  Just post MD5 sums on the web page of the
various distributions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten Lentzsch <[email protected]>
To: Karsten Lentzsch <devl at freenetproject.org>
Date: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:27 AM
Subject: [freenet-devl] A possible attack


>Hello -
>
>The current binary Freenet distributions contain an unsigned
>freenet.jar. I'd recommend that one of the administrator signs
>the JAR using a public key certificate verified by a CA.
>
>Otherwise, an evil party could modify the JAR, distribute
>it on a "mirror", allowing it to do all kind of evil stuff.
>
>If we would use a JNLP (Java Web Start) enabled deployment,
>the code would be automatically verified during startup.
>As an alternative, users that have a Java Development Kit
>could verify the code's data integrity, using the jarsigner tool.
>
>Karsten Lentzsch
>
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