Re: How APT signs packages

2012-10-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:27 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: There aren't any. That is, there aren't any such plans *anymore*, as SHA256 is already in use and that page is partially misleading, cf. I recently started a discussion on debian-devel about moving to even stronger hashes like SHA512 or

How APT signs packages

2012-10-19 Thread Lars Nooden
Hi, Where can I find an uptodate description of exactly how PGP is used by APT in packaging? I can't find the source any more but I got the impression that the individual packages were not signed but merely checksummed and that the list of checksums was the only thing that was actually

Re: How APT signs packages

2012-10-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:28:36PM +0300, Lars Nooden wrote: Hi, Where can I find an uptodate description of exactly how PGP is used by APT in packaging? I can't find the source any more but I got the impression that the individual packages were not signed but merely checksummed and

Re: How APT signs packages

2012-10-19 Thread Lars Nooden
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:28:36PM +0300, Lars Nooden wrote: Hi, Where can I find an uptodate description of exactly how PGP is used by APT in packaging? I can't find the source any more but I got the impression that the individual packages

Re: How APT signs packages

2012-10-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello there, On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 01:14:44PM +0300, Lars Nooden wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: [...] [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt Thanks. The weak point, relatively speaking, looks to be the MD5 checksums in Releases. The link above [1] says MD5 is now a

Re: How APT signs packages

2012-10-19 Thread Lars Nooden
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Florian Ernst wrote: ... ***apt has supported sha256 checksums since version 0.7.7, so these will be used in lenny and future releases. --JoeyHess - 8 - in the comments of the very same page as well as check your /var/lib/apt/lists/*_{Release,Packages} for

Re: How APT signs packages

2012-10-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-10-19 12:43 +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Florian Ernst wrote: ... ***apt has supported sha256 checksums since version 0.7.7, so these will be used in lenny and future releases. --JoeyHess - 8 - in the comments of the very same page as well as check your