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6.6. Controllare l'autenticità dei pacchetti

La sicurezza è molto importante per gli amministratori di Falcot Corp. Di conseguenza, devono garantire che vengano installati solo i pacchetti di cui è garantita la provenienza da Debian senza alcuna manomissione lungo il percorso. Un autore di attacchi informatici potrebbe tentare di aggiungere codice dannoso ad un pacchetto altrimenti legittimo. Tale pacchetto, se installato, potrebbe fare qualsiasi cosa per cui l'autore dell'attacco l'ha progettato, tra cui ad esempio scoprire password o informazioni riservate. Per ovviare a questo rischio, Debian fornisce un sigillo di garanzia a prova di manomissione per garantire, in fase di installazione, che un pacchetto venga veramente dal suo manutentore ufficiale e non sia stato modificato da terzi.
The seal works with a chain of cryptographic hashes and a signature and is explained in detail in apt-secure(8). Starting with Debian 10 Buster the signed file is the InRelease file, provided by the Debian mirrors. There is also a legacy file called Release. Both contain a list of the Packages files (including their compressed forms, Packages.gz and Packages.xz, and the incremental versions), along with their SHA256 hashes, which ensures that the files haven't been tampered with. These Packages files contain a list of the Debian packages available on the mirror, along with their hashes, which ensures in turn that the contents of the packages themselves haven't been altered either. The difference between InRelease and Release is that the former is cryptographically signed in-line, whereas the latter provides a detached signature in the form of the file Release.gpg.
APT needs a set of trusted GnuPG public keys to verify signatures in the InRelease and Release.gpg files available on the mirrors. It gets them from files in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ and from the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg keyring (managed by the apt-key command). The official Debian keys are provided and kept up-to-date by the debian-archive-keyring package which puts them in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/:
# ls /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
debian-archive-bullseye-automatic.gpg
debian-archive-bullseye-security-automatic.gpg
debian-archive-bullseye-stable.gpg
debian-archive-buster-automatic.gpg
debian-archive-buster-security-automatic.gpg
debian-archive-buster-stable.gpg
debian-archive-stretch-automatic.gpg
debian-archive-stretch-security-automatic.gpg
debian-archive-stretch-stable.gpg
Once the appropriate keys are in the keyring, APT will check the signatures before any risky operation, so that frontends will display a warning if asked to install a package whose authenticity can't be ascertained.
Note, that binary packages are usually not signed. The integrity of a package can only be confirmed by checking its hashsums against a trusted (and possibly signed) hashsum source.