Signatures of packages and security-patches

2001-01-02 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña
I've read the Debian GNU/Linux section quickly from this paper http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/os-patch.html which was announced at the bugtrack mailing list, and have found it quite interesting (will have to print it in order to read it thoroughly). Hopefully, this

Re: Security-Enhanced Linux in Debian?

2001-01-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
This was discussed briefly on debian-devel. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0012/msg02192.html for the start of the thread. One of the problems with "porting" the NSA stuff to Debian is that they actually implemented entirely new system calls. So there distribution is completely

Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Hi all, Happy New Year! I have some database files on a remote computer that I'd like to transfer to home, and I need to send them encrypted. I know how to use gnupg and scp and they would work fine, but the other computer does't have them installed. I sent an email to

Re: Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread Alexander Reelsen
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:57:40PM -0200, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: I know how to use gnupg and scp and they would work fine, but the other computer does't have them installed. I sent an email to root@remote_computer and they answer me that they can't install anything for me. Does anyone

Re: Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread Tom Marshall
Can you use FTP to put precompiled ssh and scp binaries on the machine? $HOME/bin is usually a good place. I've done this before with some success. --- The most effective Windows NT remote management tool? A car. On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: Hi all, Happy New Year!

Re: Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Another idea would be to use a small perl client/server modell with Crypt::CBC and IDEA... To use perl is a good idea. I could create a perl script that encrypts the files with a public key and send them to me by e-mail. So, I can put it in cron and receive the files periodically. Some

Re: Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:20:26AM -0800, Tom Marshall wrote: Can you use FTP to put precompiled ssh and scp binaries on the machine? $HOME/bin is usually a good place. I've done this before with some success. --- The most effective Windows NT remote management tool? A car. The remote

Re: Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread hpknight
If you use RSA keys, scp can run non-interactively. If you make statically compiled binaries of ssh, scp, etc then you could just upload them to your $HOME/bin and use them from there. I've done this in the past, but I had shell access to the machine so it was a bit easier. The admin there was

Security-Enhanced Linux in Debian?

2001-01-02 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña
I have gone through http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ (Security-Enhanced Linux) and it seems to be some interesting work on how Linux security can be overall improved, I've found with distress, however that the patches applied seem to be from RedHat versions (not original source).

RE: Security-Enhanced Linux in Debian?

2001-01-02 Thread Dabney, NathanX
The source's reliance on RedHat versions has been discussed on the SELinux mailing list. It is *not* limited to RedHat sources. It's distribution independent. If by mistake there is something in there making it not so, the team at the NSA has expressed a willingness to remove that dependency.

Re: Security-Enhanced Linux in Debian?

2001-01-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
This was discussed briefly on debian-devel. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0012/msg02192.html for the start of the thread. One of the problems with porting the NSA stuff to Debian is that they actually implemented entirely new system calls. So there distribution is completely

Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Hi all, Happy New Year! I have some database files on a remote computer that I'd like to transfer to home, and I need to send them encrypted. I know how to use gnupg and scp and they would work fine, but the other computer does't have them installed. I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread Alexander Reelsen
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:57:40PM -0200, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: I know how to use gnupg and scp and they would work fine, but the other computer does't have them installed. I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and they answer me that they can't install anything for me. Does anyone know

Re: Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread Tom Marshall
Can you use FTP to put precompiled ssh and scp binaries on the machine? $HOME/bin is usually a good place. I've done this before with some success. --- The most effective Windows NT remote management tool? A car. On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: Hi all, Happy New Year!

Re: Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Another idea would be to use a small perl client/server modell with Crypt::CBC and IDEA... To use perl is a good idea. I could create a perl script that encrypts the files with a public key and send them to me by e-mail. So, I can put it in cron and receive the files periodically. Some

Re: Encrypted file transfer

2001-01-02 Thread hpknight
If you use RSA keys, scp can run non-interactively. If you make statically compiled binaries of ssh, scp, etc then you could just upload them to your $HOME/bin and use them from there. I've done this in the past, but I had shell access to the machine so it was a bit easier. The admin there was

Signatures of packages and security-patches

2001-01-02 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña
I've read the Debian GNU/Linux section quickly from this paper http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/os-patch.html which was announced at the bugtrack mailing list, and have found it quite interesting (will have to print it in order to read it thoroughly). Hopefully, this might