Am Di, den 23.03.2004 schrieb Anthony Campbell um 13:12: > On 23 Mar 2004, Brian Brazil wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > I said md5sum for a reason. Even a checksum would be nice. See > > RFC1680(?) - MD5, RFC1750 - Randomness recomendations for security. > > Essentially date(touch) and file size(echo >>) are easy to modify. > > With a one way hashing algorithm though its more difficult to get the > > right answer with a bad file. > > [snip] > > What is the best way to verify that the result of md5sum for a file is > what it ought to be?
The easiest way is to install an IDS *before* the breach............. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian SID. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
