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Checksum Validation of Installed Packages [message #1761183] Mon, 08 May 2017 15:38 Go to next message
Virginia Pierson is currently offline Virginia PiersonFriend
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Does the Oomph installer do any automatic validation of the packages it downloads/installs from mirror sites? Or is this something you have to try and implement yourself?
Re: Checksum Validation of Installed Packages [message #1761304 is a reply to message #1761183] Tue, 09 May 2017 15:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Denis Roy is currently offline Denis RoyFriend
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Packages that are downloaded are signed, and Eclipse does validate those digital signatures.

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Re: Checksum Validation of Installed Packages [message #1761307 is a reply to message #1761304] Tue, 09 May 2017 15:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ed Merks is currently offline Ed MerksFriend
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Oomph does no more or less checking than p2 itself does when you install something into an IDE. All signed artifacts are verified, any before any unsigned artifact is installed, you will be asked if that's okay. So if you unless you install unsigned things, you can be sure you're really installing what you're expecting to be installing.

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Re: Checksum Validation of Installed Packages [message #1764494 is a reply to message #1761307] Tue, 30 May 2017 13:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Virginia Pierson is currently offline Virginia PiersonFriend
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Does it also do any checksum validation, like with the SHA or something else? Or is it just the signature, so that if you're downloading unsigned packages you have no way of knowing whether or not it's what you expect?
Re: Checksum Validation of Installed Packages [message #1764501 is a reply to message #1764494] Tue, 30 May 2017 14:45 Go to previous message
Ed Merks is currently offline Ed MerksFriend
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I suppose unsigned jars could be tampered.

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