Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > 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

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Daniel Ginsburg
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:52:47PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 00-12-26 Peter Cordes wrote: > > have produced collisions in MD5. This is a Bad Thing for MD5, but it isn't > > a real break against MD5. It means that you can find two messages that hash > > to the same value. To do so, you _h

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Daniel Ginsburg
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:27:53PM +0200, Pavel Minev Penev wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:27:07PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Of course plain md5 hashes are not very helpful. But we can keep MAC[1] for > > binaries. Tampering with MAC database is useless. > > > > ... > > > > [1] Messa

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Peter Cordes wrote: > have produced collisions in MD5. This is a Bad Thing for MD5, but it isn't > a real break against MD5. It means that you can find two messages that hash > to the same value. To do so, you _have_ to choose both messages yourself. > If one of the messages is /bin/

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:37:54PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 00-12-26 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... blah blah blah ... Let's stop arguing about this. Instead of flaming anyone, I'll try to state the relevant facts, since this argument is o

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > 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

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Daniel Ginsburg
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:52:47PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 00-12-26 Peter Cordes wrote: > > have produced collisions in MD5. This is a Bad Thing for MD5, but it isn't > > a real break against MD5. It means that you can find two messages that hash > > to the same value. To do so, you _

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Daniel Ginsburg
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:27:53PM +0200, Pavel Minev Penev wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:27:07PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Of course plain md5 hashes are not very helpful. But we can keep MAC[1] for > > binaries. Tampering with MAC database is useless. > > > > ... > > > > [1] Mess

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Peter Cordes wrote: > have produced collisions in MD5. This is a Bad Thing for MD5, but it isn't > a real break against MD5. It means that you can find two messages that hash > to the same value. To do so, you _have_ to choose both messages yourself. > If one of the messages is /bin

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Pavel Minev Penev
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:27:07PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course plain md5 hashes are not very helpful. But we can keep MAC[1] for > binaries. Tampering with MAC database is useless. > > ... > > [1] Message Authentication Code. One of possible ways to compute MAC is > H(K,H(K,M)) wher

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:37:54PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 00-12-26 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... blah blah blah ... Let's stop arguing about this. Instead of flaming anyone, I'll try to state the relevant facts, since this argument is

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Pavel Minev Penev
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:27:07PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course plain md5 hashes are not very helpful. But we can keep MAC[1] for > binaries. Tampering with MAC database is useless. > > ... > > [1] Message Authentication Code. One of possible ways to compute MAC is > H(K,H(K,M)) whe

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ Stop sending me unnecessary Ccs.] > Start thinking about getting a decent mail client. My client is so decent, that it support a pure list-reply-function. Looks like your client is missing such a feature. > >

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Stop sending me unnecessary Ccs.] Start thinking about getting a decent mail client. > > > 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 u

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
[ Stop sending me unnecessary Ccs.] On 00-12-26 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > 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

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
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 binari

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread dginsburg
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:39:19PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > 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 h

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ Stop sending me unnecessary Ccs.] > Start thinking about getting a decent mail client. My client is so decent, that it support a pure list-reply-function. Looks like your client is missing such a feature. >

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Stop sending me unnecessary Ccs.] Start thinking about getting a decent mail client. > > > 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

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Christian Kurz
[ Stop sending me unnecessary Ccs.] On 00-12-26 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > 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 whic

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
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 s

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-26 Thread dginsburg
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:39:19PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > 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

Re: What is "Warning: /boot/System.map-XXXX does not match kernel data"

2000-12-26 Thread Julian Stoev
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:37:24AM +, Jim Breton wrote: |On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:30:43PM +0900, Julian Stoev wrote: |> Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.18 does not match kernel data. |> |> Can somebody explain this? Is this a security problem? I remember |> reading something about fake kernel

Re: What is "Warning: /boot/System.map-XXXX does not match kernel data"

2000-12-26 Thread Julian Stoev
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:37:24AM +, Jim Breton wrote: |On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:30:43PM +0900, Julian Stoev wrote: |> Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.18 does not match kernel data. |> |> Can somebody explain this? Is this a security problem? I remember |> reading something about fake kernel

What is "Warning: /boot/System.map-XXXX does not match kernel data"

2000-12-26 Thread Julian Stoev
Hi! I started getting this first on SPARC Debian. And now I get it on Intel. On SPARC it was first with 2.2.17 Now on SPARC I get {iommu_unlockarea} {___f_mmu_unlockarea} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.18pre21 does not match kernel data. On Intel I get {module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_li

What is "Warning: /boot/System.map-XXXX does not match kernel data"

2000-12-26 Thread Julian Stoev
Hi! I started getting this first on SPARC Debian. And now I get it on Intel. On SPARC it was first with 2.2.17 Now on SPARC I get {iommu_unlockarea} {___f_mmu_unlockarea} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.18pre21 does not match kernel data. On Intel I get {module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_l