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| author | David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> | 2015-04-02 21:04:55 +0300 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2015-04-23 22:57:11 +0300 |
| commit | f33e34f333ca67cb932c3829acf6b6d427b78e99 (patch) | |
| tree | a00a413bedf01ac7e77f76adba5fdccd93b5e849 /winsup/doc/ChangeLog | |
| parent | 383ff5fc47123ab2914cffc9517df1071eb1dc6a (diff) | |
Add FAQ entry on how Cygwin counters install and update MITM attacks
* faq-setup.xml: Document how Cygwin secures installation and
update against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Note that
setup embeds a public key to check the signature of setup.ini,
and that setup.ini includes SHA-512 cryptographic hashes.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/ChangeLog')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 30d9fdc6f..416390034 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2015-04-02 David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> + + * faq-setup.xml: Document how Cygwin secures installation and + update against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Note that + setup embeds a public key to check the signature of setup.ini, + and that setup.ini includes SHA-512 cryptographic hashes. + 2015-03-31 Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> * misc-funcs.xml (cygwin_internal): Correct return type. |