On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 09:38 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:

> I assume you are going the RPM route to make sure the server cert isn't
> tampered with in transit;
Certainly.  Tampering in-transit is marginally easier with the new 
scheme since it's a lot easier to see the package fly across the wire
than it was to pick out the bits when we were blasting a raw ext3 image
across the wire.


>  though it seems that both when the cert is
> installed with an RPM and when the client downloads it itself on the
> initial run, you have the exact same security issues: ultimately,
> somebody can intercept that download and substitute their own server
> cert.
Basically yes. 

jeff


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