security issue with signing files

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Sat Nov 24 18:20:01 2001


"Kent Tong" <kent@cpttm.org.mo> writes:

> Suppose a user is about to sign a file that he has just viewed, but
> someone else modifies the files over the network, then he will sign
> over the arbitrary contents written by anyone who has write access?

Yes.

> How to solve this problem?

Always sign a local copy.