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2015 Oct 15
3
Package integrity check via SHA256 or OpenPGP possible?
Dear list,
I'm using R in a corporate environment and was interested how R checks integrity of packages during an installation.
I saw (and verified my suspicion in the code[1]) that the verification purely relies on MD5.
>From an IT security perspective, this can be improved.
My question is: Is is possible to force R to verify integrity via SHA256 or even OpenPGP signatures?
If not are
2015 Oct 15
0
Package integrity check via SHA256 or OpenPGP possible?
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Philip Gilli?en <guerda at freenet.de> wrote:
> I'm using R in a corporate environment...
That's irrelevant.
> is possible to force R to verify integrity via SHA256 or even OpenPGP signatures? If not are there any plans to support better hashes than MD5? As the source code looks, an extension to support other (optional) hash values would be