Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFI: OpenWRT Upgrade System; ENH,SEC suggestions

2020-02-01 Thread Wes Turner
Thanks for clarifying. How can a user add a usign EdDSA ed25519 key for e.g. a self-hosted package set? https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/security/release_signatures links to https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/security/keygen which describes how to generate release signing keys with GPG and us

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] RFI: OpenWRT Upgrade System; ENH,SEC suggestions

2020-02-01 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
Hi Wes, > It's definitely an issue that the sha256 checksum check was broken. > But, can someone explain why a person who is MITM'ing ipk downloads > would change the package and not the checksum? the repository index files containing the SHA256 checksums are signed using usign, which is a deriva

[OpenWrt-Devel] RFI: OpenWRT Upgrade System; ENH,SEC suggestions

2020-02-01 Thread Wes Turner
Saw this post and thought I'd forward it along here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22208557 """ It's definitely an issue that the sha256 checksum check was broken. But, can someone explain why a person who is MITM'ing ipk downloads would change the package and not the checksum? Are there GP