Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 9/20/22 02:53, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, Hans wrote: I asked myself, how can I check, if on a mirror are not manipulated packages. apt does this for you. There are a set of gpg public keys in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d. When apt downloads the releases file it verifies it with

[OT] your clock, was Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread David Wright
Your clock appears to be fast by the precise number of seconds it took for your post to leave your computer and reach my mail server. Arrived: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:16:05 +0100 (BST) Posted: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:16:05 +0200 That's the output of a tiny script that I was just tweaking, that uses

Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 07:27:33PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, Hans wrote: > > > Hi Tim, > > > > I am not sure, you are correct. But please correct me! > > > apt does this for you. There are a set of gpg public keys in > > > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d. > > > > > > > Yes, apt

Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 08:16:05PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > If some Evil Instance is controlling your whole internet, well... > > your installation media will be already compromised. > > The attacker must not forget to fake the page with the Debian GPG >

Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, Hans wrote: Hi Tim, I am not sure, you are correct. But please correct me! apt does this for you. There are a set of gpg public keys in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d. Yes, apt is trusting the whole server, so it verifies, that a server who claims to be repo.debian.org is the

Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If some Evil Instance is controlling your whole internet, well... > your installation media will be already compromised. The attacker must not forget to fake the page with the Debian GPG signatures: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify Further any contact has to be

Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 06:40:01PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I am not sure, you are correct. But please correct me! > > apt does this for you. There are a set of gpg public keys in > > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d. > > > > Yes, apt is trusting the whole server, so it verifies, that a server

Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread Hans
Hi Tim, I am not sure, you are correct. But please correct me! > apt does this for you. There are a set of gpg public keys in > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d. > Yes, apt is trusting the whole server, so it verifies, that a server who claims to be repo.debian.org is the real one, nothing else. >

Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, Hans wrote: Dear list, I asked myself, how can I check, if on a mirror are not manipulated packages. The background of this is: The institution of the government, I worked before, set up an own debian repo mirror, so that the servers of its network could be upgraded from

Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread Hans
Dear list, I asked myself, how can I check, if on a mirror are not manipulated packages. The background of this is: The institution of the government, I worked before, set up an own debian repo mirror, so that the servers of its network could be upgraded from it. However, I mistrusted the