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Rick Langschultz wrote: | Sun will be releasing Solaris 10 shortly as a commercial product | available for purchase. There is a new file system that is 128-bit, and | is protected by md5 checksums, I think this is a great idea for reactos. | I think before a program executes there should be a binary verifier that | checks this checksum and then allows the program to run. This would help | in deterring Windows viruses from attaching themselves to reactos | binaries. Since ReactOS is open source it will be harder to protect a | binary if there is an attack and a malicious user replaces a dll or an | exe. Perhaps this can be done using a small xml file or a txt file | called md5sums or something. Please let me know what you think.
I think Windows already does this with the "System File Checker", which ROS may create in it's own way later on.
~ -uniQ
PS. MD5 is kindof insecure, better to use a SHA or other algorithm.