IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)]

On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:47:08 PDT, goemon at anime.net said:

> What you want is cisco hardware that verifies firmware signatures in 
> hardware.

Yes, but that requires new hardware.  Understanding the security risk in
accepting an unsigned MD5 signature from the same place that you accepted the
file from is a wetware issue.

Granted, at many shops hardware upgrades are easier than wetware upgrades. ;)


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