Re: Verifying file integrity with "MD5 signatures" (was: Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3 ONLY) hacked on Saturday)

2016-02-26 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
> And hashes are not just for security. Ms Aurora worked on both ZFS and btrfs. > Those filesystems use the hashes for ECC. If the hash for a block is wrong, > they get the dupe block (in RAID-1, etc) with a good hash and fix it. Object > FS like S3, swift, ceph use hashes also. > > Collisi

Re: Verifying file integrity with "MD5 signatures" (was: Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3 ONLY) hacked on Saturday)

2016-02-26 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 02/21/2016 06:49 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > > According to > > > > > http://fossforce.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hacked-iso-for-17-3-cinnamon-edition-modified/ > > > > Original web site posting here: > > > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=299

Re: Verifying file integrity with "MD5 signatures" (was: Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3 ONLY) hacked on Saturday)

2016-02-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
On 02/21/2016 06:49 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > According to > > http://fossforce.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hacked-iso-for-17-3-cinnamon-edition-modified/ > > Original web site posting here: > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 > > Be careful out there. And he says "check its MD5 signature" So ma