In message <Pine.NEB.4.53.0307272227490.199@forsaken.emlyn.absd.org>, David Bro
wnlee writes:
>On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, David Maxwell wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:12:54AM -0400, Steve Bellovin wrote:
>> > It's complaining that the new vulnerability list is shorter than the
>> > old one.
>>
>> Corrected. The combination of a 0 size change by a 4 char-name committer
>> after a 5-char name committer...
>>
>> One of these days I'll eliminate this size dependency scheme.
>
>	Maybe it could switch to 'wc -l'?
>

What's needed is some assurance that (a) the file wasn't truncated on 
download, and (b) that the file is newer than the previous one.  I 
suggest sha1 for the former and a timestamp -- date +%s will do -- for 
the latter.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb