This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: ><quote who="Jean-Francois Dive"> > >> In your first post, you talk about md5 *signature*, now about md5 >> checksums. These are 2 different things. Checking file integrity is >> definitively not the job of the networking stack at all. > >Minh is talking about a feature of some 'host firewalls' that checks the >md5 checksum of software trying to access the network. That way, it can >allow and disallow access to executables that have been changed on disk, or >not explicitly listed as allowed to access the network. > >Dunno if this sort of stuff has been done on other systems before, but it >seems to be the in-thing with the latest Windows 'host firewalls'. > >It also sounds like a totally dodgy and easily breakable consumer marketing >oriented "feature". :-)
And totally unimplementable on a machine where the same binaries can have different MD5 sums across different installations, e.g. the one you all are (most likely) reading this mail on now. ObBigot: Go free software! yay! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
