Re: [clamav-users] Database updated over unencrypted connection?

2019-03-15 Thread instaham--- via clamav-users
Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:     the databases are digitally signed, and any modification, such in a man-in-the-middle attack, would break the signature and freshclam would refuse to run the files. Sounds good. Can you please explain how this works in detail? Apt places GPG keys in the system

Re: [clamav-users] Database updated over unencrypted connection?

2019-03-15 Thread Arnaud Jacques
Hello, Le 15/03/2019 à 16:04, instaham--- via clamav-users a écrit : Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:     the databases are digitally signed, and any modification, such in a man-in-the-middle attack, would break the signature and freshclam would refuse to run the files. Sounds good. Can you please

Re: [clamav-users] Database updated over unencrypted connection?

2019-03-15 Thread Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users
For what it's worth, one of the tasks we're working on for 0.102 is https support for freshclam. It's more than just adding an "s" to the URL. The plan is to make libcurl a hard requirement for ClamAV, which will also mean including libcurl on Windows. Then we'll have to rewrite the

Re: [clamav-users] Database updated over unencrypted connection?

2019-03-15 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke via clamav-users
Op Vrijdag, 15-03-2019 om 16:04 schreef instaham--- via clamav-users: > Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: > >     the databases are digitally signed, and any modification, such in > > a man-in-the-middle attack, would break the signature and freshclam > > would refuse to run the files. > > Sounds good.

Re: [clamav-users] Database updated over unencrypted connection?

2019-03-15 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Em 15/03/2019 14:39, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users escreveu: Hi there, On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, Franky Van Liedekerkewrote: Certifcates cost nothing ... CPU cycles don't.     developers time do cost their ... time, basically. How about contributing with the code instead of blaming ? That

Re: [clamav-users] Database updated over unencrypted connection?

2019-03-15 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, Franky Van Liedekerkewrote: Certifcates cost nothing ... CPU cycles don't. -- 73, Ged. ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us

Re: [clamav-users] Database updated over unencrypted connection?

2019-03-15 Thread Luke Massa via clamav-users
I had this question a while back, and this is what I was able to track down: The files are not signed via any PKI trusted by your system, but rather by a specific RSA key that is trusted by the code itself. If you look in libclamav/dsig.c, there is an implementation of RSA inspired by