Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel.org tarball/patch signature files | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:18:23 -0400 |
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:37:27 +0200, Greg KH said: > If you are really worried about decompressor bugs, then run them in a > virtual machine/chroot :)
Of more concern than bugs are errors during download. Yes, TCP has a checksum, which is a CRC that quite frankly sucks when we're talking the amount of data that kernel.org moves. So there's a non-zero chance you'll get bad data downloaded. And you really want to do a more effective data check (MD5 or SHA sum, or a PGP signature) *before* you decompress, in case the corrupted data causes a spew of gigabytes of trash and fills your filesystem.
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