Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debsums seems to help a little bit - you can expect to catch some > > less-clueful > > intruders with it, but it doesn't help in general. > > debsums just uses md5sums which can be manipulated on the one hand and > on the other hand you modify binaries so that the md5sum will still be > the same.
So you've effectively broken MD5 in a way that would yield useful results (ie would allow you to replace a specific binary with another specific binary, not with some more or less random garbage). How came it that you weren't prominently mentionend in this month's cryptogram? -- SIGSTOP