From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Verifying Kernel source
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:54:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DE5E7DC.8F688E0E@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021127183009.G9443@work.bitmover.com>
Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > If it's in BK you can be pretty sure that it is what was checked in,
> > > BK checksums every diff in every file. It's not at all impossible
> > > to fool the checksum but it is very unlikely that you can cause
> > > semantic differences in the form of a trojan horse and still fool
> > > the checksums.
> The bottom line is that, so far, the BK tree is safe.
Sure, it is hard to _fake_ bk, but how about someone cracking
a machine? Couldn't they check in a trojan using
the normal check-in procedures?
Helge Hafting
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-28 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-27 14:54 Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2002-11-27 16:46 ` Jason Cook
2002-11-27 17:28 ` Larry McVoy
2002-11-27 22:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-11-28 2:30 ` Larry McVoy
2002-11-28 9:54 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
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