auto sign files

Thomas Sjögren thomas at northernsecurity.net
Tue Jan 18 13:47:44 CET 2005


On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:33:18PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> Just reading the script will be enough to identify 
> the passphrase. Therefore automated signatures give a FALSE sense of 
> security. As soon as the machine is compromised, the script is readable, the 
> key identifiable, the passphrase known. oops.

Not supporting automating signatures but SHC[1] might be worth checking
out. LinuxSecurity.com got an article[2] about it as well.

[1] http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/%7Efrosal/sources/shc.html
[2] http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/117920/49/

/Thomas
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