SRX

Hello,

I want to confirm how juniper secures its devices and image to prevent hackers who would want to modify the images in order to be able to have a back door to the network thereby making the network vulnerable. I heard juniper uses MD5 checksum to achieve this. Now my question is how would you confirm that the image has been modified/comprised.

thanks in anticipation.

Chinedu

Hi Chinedu.Onwurah,

Once you have the junos loaded on the device you can run the below command;

> file checksum md5 <pathname> filename

You will get a md5 value as the output. <output 1>

After that go to the software download page and select the product and the version.

You will get something like below;

Now click on the MD5 SHA1 link  you will get the value of MD5 , it will be <output 2> . Now you can compare the two values and  confirm if they are same the file is valid and not tampered with.

Thanks SSN, I appreciate.

You're welcome!