Re: CGI scripts on www.octave.org broken

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Steve Lipa wrote:


> I think you are missing the point here.  Let's say the sources are hosted
> on a machine named www2.octave.org in pub/octave-source.tar.gz the MD5
> sum is in pub/index.html or pub/octave-source.tar.gz.md5.   If some hacker

The checksum is being mailed by John to the list when he announce new release.
So you (and me and all subscribers) will have a copy of MD5 sum in their 
mailboxes.

There are some arguments that public key cryptography is not "real security"
either, but it is getting off-topic...


> Steve

Dmitri.