Package Repository and Integrity

Learn how the integrity of the Debian repositories is secured by a chain of cryptographic signatures.

Debian and its derivatives have an enormous installation base, particularly in the server landscape. An attacker who could sneak malicious code into a Debian package, into either the packaged installation or one of the hook scripts that run at installation time, could gain access to lots of resources and data.

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