Re: MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote:

[snip]

> issues to solve there. In a non license constrained world, the problem
> of "how do I replicate these files from here to there" is universally
> solved by rsync. Would a freebsd-update tool that required the rsync

Don't portsnap and freebsd-update use cryptographic signing as well?

When used to update software, signing seems like a big win over vanilla rsync.

Royce
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