2008/7/1 Jordan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Bart Smaalders wrote:
>>
>> Of course, we supply the elf hashes of the binaries in signed
>> manifests... so that auditing can be performed as desired.
>
> I think you're missing the point.  *Your* tools can audit just fine. The
> problem is that all the *other* tools that people use to do audits, and in
> particular the tools that they use to compare their systems against the
> golden master that they are supposed to be copies of, will be looking at the
> file en toto, not pulling it apart.

This leads me to believe that we need a policy that controls this so
that those who care can force the system to update files based on hash
instead of the more efficient algorithm.

-- 
Shawn Walker
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