On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Andrew David Wong <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2017-05-16 16:42, [email protected] wrote:
>> I verified signature about qubes ISO file by gpg.Then I burned it to DVD.
>> But I can't trust that DVD was burned without corruption.
>> So I want to verify integrity against the DVD too.
>>
>> Is someone know how to verify signature against DVD?
>>
>>
>> At moment, I want my privacy to be protected.
>> https://mytemp.email/
>>
>
> I'm not aware of a method to gpg --verify an ISO directly from a DVD
> after it has been burned, but you can re-create the ISO from the DVD,
> [1] then gpg --verify the re-created ISO. [2]
>
>
> [1] 
> https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Create_an_ISO_Image_from_a_source_CD_or_DVD_under_Linux
>
> [2] If you're worried that the re-created ISO might not truly represent
> what's on the DVD because you're worried that your software environment
> might be compromised and lying to you, then I'd point out that the same
> compromised software environment could also lie to you about the results
> of verifying the DVD directly.

IIRC it is legal and works as expected to pass a block device as the
file to be verified with gpg, e.g.
$ gpg --verify Qubes-R3.2-x86_64.iso.asc /dev/sr0

However, I know I have just done:
$ sudo cat /dev/sr0 | sha256sum -
and compared against a known-good hash.
or
$ sudo head -c $((1024*1024*4)) /dev/sr0 | sha256sum -
in the case of larger devices (like flash drives) which do not report
a certain size (like burned DVDs), and then verified that the rest of
the media is zeroes (dd skip=...) because I'm paranoid like that and
don't know what might read past the end of intentionally written data
and what parsers it might reach.

I'm happy to be corrected, but I do not see the need for re-creating
an ISO on your disk unless you find your DVD to be wrong and want to
do some forensics.

Non-write-once media, or media with embedded computing capability and
persistent and mutable state (like flash drives) have other concerns
however.\

Cheers,
Jean-Philippe

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