Re: Up2date

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Am Fr, den 01.10.2004 schrieb TongKe Xue um 1:18:

> 1) What is RedHat's GPG key? Up2date said it was going to "install the
> key" but didn't say what the key was.

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#gpgsig

> 2) How can I ensure that the packages I download are from
> RedHat/Fedora and not spoofed/trojaned? (By the man in middle attack)

This is the intend of the GPG signing and md5sum. You can run

rpm -Kv packagename-version.arch.rpm

and check the output.

rpm or the "frontends" up2date or yum handle the signature and checksum
checking automatically.

> --TongKe

Alexander


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