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Re: URGENT: BAD signature from "Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>"
Thomas Sanders writes:
> Thanks for the reply, here is the actual script. I must have copy/pasted the wrong info previously.
> ###
> wget -q http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe -O ${DESTINATION}/setup-x86.exe
> wget -q http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe.sig -O ${DESTINATION}/setup-x86.exe.sig
> wget -q http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe -O ${DESTINATION}/setup-x86_64.exe
> wget -q http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe.sig -O ${DESTINATION}/setup-x86_64.exe.sig
> wget -q http://cygwin.com/key/pubring.asc -O ${DESTINATION}/pubring.asc
For checking the signatures to be of any real use, you'd need to use
https at least. Also, you'd need to establish the provenance of the key
independently.
> testing /tftpboot/PXE/mirrors/cygwin//setup-x86.exe
> gpg: Signature made Fri 09 Sep 2016 02:20:02 AM PDT using DSA key ID 676041BA
> gpg: BAD signature from "Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>"
BLODA, most likely. Particularly some stupid heuristic scanner that
thinks that UPX compressed binaries are dangerous just because they use
compression.
Regards,
Achim.
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