Update on Bellcore's Trusted Software Integrity System ------------------------------------------------------ The format of Betsi certificates has now been upgraded to accomodate multiple files. The md5sum program, which is included in the contrib directory of the pgp 2.6.1 distribution, takes a list of files or wildcards as arguments and produces a list of md5 hash sums followed by file names. The format of a request for certificate message is the same as before for one file, and as follows for multiple files: To: certify@bellcore.com Subject: certify -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bebeto J. Romario thumper.bellcore.com MD5 2ee29998b334297dcc32102eb857fbc3 Fontmap Version 2.1 c3e5704be89c4d4807d5fec11b1752e6 Great.Program.zip dc3a8031d65db8bb0ec3de046abe79b2 README 012ffa34521f97ae381fb5f11f837016 Trusted.Dist.tar.Z -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQB1AwUBLoGbvJti/eSkC5bZAQFudQL/W4u7zOE9yp8rTXsSQK2L9pfHIYNzOkRB g4lNKTHzFXgbEdN8+DzpB2mKCYYTNw+k/qP/Hui0yaG0oeksNYnqJN1zzB0vWhgG TyFzJqVop/QlYIlrItFr+LD1ebDBOYon =UGQZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- The paper at thumper.bellcore.com in /pub/certify/Betsi.ps has been updated to reflect this upgrade, and it is further explained there. I am currently working on writing mosaic pages to facilitate the process of sending various messages to Betsi. For more information on Betsi send a message to certify@bellcore.com with the subject: help. ********************************************************************* Aviel D. Rubin Email: rubin@faline.bellcore.com Bellcore (MRE-2M354) http://www.citi.umich.edu/users/rubin/ 445 South St. Morristown, NJ 07960 Voice: +1 201 829 4105 USA FAX: +1 201 829 5889