Configuring package security

The delivery of the packages from the mirror you download from up to the install can be secured by using a GPG-signed catalog which itself contains md5 hashes for each packages ensuring that the delivered packages are identical to the officially released ones.

Installation

You can install the OpenCSW PKI package:

# /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -i CSWcswpki

You may also want to trust the key:

# /opt/csw/bin/gpg --edit-key board@opencsw.org trust

GPG public key

Key fingerprint:

4DCE 3C80 AAB2 CAB1 E60C  9A3C 05F4 2D66 9306 CC77

Here is the public key, which is used to sign the catalog files to verify package integrity across mirror sites. This ensures that the md5 hashes are not tampered with, which in turn ensure that the binaries themselves are not altered.

 
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (SunOS)

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TeAZQJm5uyrisfKrvBSU
=Xg9n
-----END  
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (SunOS)

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-----END

gpg verification is optional. If you wish to have the catalog file (with its list of checksums for each package) verified by gpg, then you should save this page and add the public key to your root “keyring”. For example:

# /opt/csw/bin/wget -q -O - http://www.opencsw.org/security/ | /opt/csw/bin/gpg --import -