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Friday, October 7, 2011

Posted by venu k
37 comments | 12:21 PM

Note: All the commands tested on CentOs 5.x. Your output may be vary depending
on distribution and version, so your results may not always look exactly like
the listings and figures shown here. Almost all everything works well on
RHEL/CentOs/Fedora.

Why to check signature of an rpm:

The signature confirms that the package was signed by an authorized party and also confirm the integrity and origin of your file. It is extremely important to verify the signature of the RPM files before installing them to ensure that they have not been altered from the original source of the packages.

Checking a package's Signature:

The --checksig(or -K) option checks all the digests and signatures contained in PACKAGE_FILE to ensure the integrity and origin of the package. Note that signatures are now verified whenever a package is read, and --checksig is useful to verify all of the digests and signatures associated with a package. If you wish to verify that a package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum by typing the following command at a shell prompt (where <rpm-file> is the file name of the RPM package): rpm -K --nosignature <rpm-file> The message <rpm-file>: md5 OK is displayed. This brief message means that the file was not corrupted by the download. To see a more verbose message, replace -K with -Kvv in the command. For demonstration purpose I downloaded createrepo package from CentOs mirror and used in examples.
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -K --nosignature createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm
createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm: sha1 md5 OK
On the other hand, how trustworthy is the developer who created the package? If the package is signed with the developer's GnuPG key,you know that the developer really is who they say they are. An RPM package can be signed using Gnu Privacy Guard (or GnuPG), to help you make certain your downloaded package is trustworthy. GnuPG is a tool for secure communication; it is a complete and free replacement for the encryption technol- ogy of PGP, an electronic privacy program. With GnuPG, you can authenticate the validity of documents and encrypt/decrypt data to and from other recipients. GnuPG is capable of decrypting and verifying PGP 5.x files as well. During installation,GnuPG is installed by default. That way you can immediately start using GnuPG to verify any packages that you receive from CentOs(RHEL/Fedor a). Before doing so, you must first import CentOs's public key. If you not impo- rted correct public key, you will get following error message.
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -K createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm
createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING
KEYS: GPG#e8562897)
Here the GPG in parentheses indicates that there's a problem with the signature, and the message at the end of the line (MISSING KEYS) shows what the problem is. Basically, RPM asked GPG to verify the package against a key(GPG#e8562897) that GPG didn't have, and GPG complained. It means you missed the correct public key.

How to import public keys:

Digital signatures cannot be verified without a public key. An ascii armored public key can be added to the rpm database using --import. An imported public key is carried in a header, and key ring management is performed exactly like package management. For example, all currently imported public keys can be displayed by: rpm -qa gpg-pubkey* To verify CentOs (RHEL/Fedora) packages, you must import the CentOs(RHEL/Fedora) GPG key. To do so, execute the following command at a shell prompt:
[root@localhost ~]# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
This will create duplicate copies if one already exists. To display a list of all keys installed for RPM verification,execute the command
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa gpg-pubkey*
gpg-pubkey-e8562897-459f07a4
or RPM has the capacity to retrieve the key from a Mirror:
[root@ ~]# rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
[root@ ~]# rpm -qa gpg-pubkey*
gpg-pubkey-e8562897-459f07a4
gpg-pubkey-e8562897-459f07a4
Note: Depending on distribution and version, you have to change mirror link.
OK, public key imported, now check signature of the createrepo rpm.
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -K createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm
createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK
This means that the signature of the package has been verified, and that it is not corrupted. If you want to know public key builder's name , execute the command:
[root@~]# rpm -qa gpg-pubkey\* --qf "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-%{summary}\n"
gpg-pubkey-e8562897-459f07a4-gpg(CentOS-5 Key (CentOS 5 Official Signing Key)
<centos-5-key@centos.org>)
gpg-pubkey-e8562897-459f07a4-gpg(CentOS-5 Key (CentOS 5 Official Signing Key)
<centos-5-key@centos.org>)
gpg-pubkey-2689b887-42315a9a-gpg(Hewlett-Packard Company (HP Codesigning Service
))
Note: For showing difference I imported HP GPG key.
If you're the curious type and you want to know more information about imported GPG key, use the following command. rpm -qi <gpg-pubkey>
[root@localhost data]# rpm -qi gpg-pubkey-e8562897-459f07a4
Name : gpg-pubkey Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : e8562897 Vendor: (none)
Release : 459f07a4 Build Date: Fri 07 Oct 2011 05:53:03 PM IST
Install Date: Fri 07 Oct 2011 05:53:03 PM IST Build Host: localhost
Group : Public Keys Source RPM: (none)
Size : 0 License: pubkey
Signature : (none)
Summary : gpg(CentOS-5 Key (CentOS 5 Official Signing Key) <centos-5-key@
centos.orgi>)
Description :
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: rpm-4.4.2.3 (NSS-3)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bKCk0hAAn134bIx3wSbq58E6P6U5RT7Z2Zx4AJ9VxnVkoGHkVIgSdsxHUgRjo27N
F7kBDQRFnwezEAQA/HnJ5yiozwgtf6jt+kii8iua+WnjqBKomPHOQ8moxbWdv5Ks
4e1DPhzRqxhshjmub4SuJ93sgMSAF2ayC9t51mSJV33KfzPF2gIahcMqfABe/2hJ
aMzcQZHrGJCEX6ek8l8SFKou7vICzyajRSIK8gxWKBuQknP/9LKsoczV+xsAAwUD
/idXPkk4vRRHsCwc6I23fdI0ur52bzEqHiAIswNfO521YgLk2W1xyCLc2aYjc8Ni
nrMX1tCnEx0/gK7ICyJoWH1Vc7//79sWFtX2EaTO+Q07xjFX4E66WxJlCo9lOjos
Vk5qc7R+xzLDoLGFtbzaTRQFzf6yr7QTu+BebWLoPwNTiE8EGBECAA8FAkWfB7MC
GwwFCRLMAwAACgkQqKRH3OhWKJfvvACfbsF1WK193zM7vSc4uq51XsceLwgAoI0/
9GxdNhGQEAweSlQfhPa3yYXH
=o/Mx
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
You can view above PGP public key block directly by: vi /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Depending on distribution, change file path.

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