Re: [rpm] Re: password protect

[R P Herrold <herrold owlriver com>]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

> >pgp would do that, but either I can't figure it out, or its only good for
> >validing contents....
> 
> Yup. But you could use pgp for encrypting the .rpm file.

Don't forget rhmask, and arbitrarily complex fubarage of parts
-- dd and md5sum and MAC addresses, and so forth.  

Real protection probably requires public key encryption and a
monotonically increasing 'seconds since epoch' and external
connectivity to support the challenge/response layer.

I've sold a product for the last 15 years (Alloy, OS/2, DOS,
Novell, WinX) which uses variants of such methods, and the
price to complexity tradeoff is such that I've not had much
theft.

-- Russ Herrold