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The website mentions this towards the end (Replay attacks) : To mitigate this problem, APT archives includes a timestamp after which all the files are considere
by niea_11 8y ago
The website mentions this towards the end (Replay attacks) : To mitigate this problem, APT archives includes a timestamp after which all the files are considered stale
The time stamp is described here[1], but it is not clear how the expiration date is decided.
1: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#Date.2C_Valid-Until https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#Date.2C_Vali...
- julian-klode 8y agoWell, defining the expiration date is up to the server. Debian picks a week. Ubuntu does not use it, I have started a launchpad branch last year, but um, I don't know launchpad, so it might take some more years ;)