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Rendezvous Developer Information

Rendezvous is Apple's proposed new industry standard for automatic



discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Also



known as Zero Configuration networking or Zeroconf, Rendezvous uses



industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically



find each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure



DNS servers. For technical information on how your hardware product



can take advantage of this new standard, visit the Rendezvous



developer resources web page at



http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/.

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Security Update 7-18-02

Security Update 7-18-02 is now available. It contains Software Update



client version 1.4.7 which adds cryptographic signature verification



to the software update command line tool thereby increasing the



security of the Software Update process.

The software update command line tool is primarily designed as a means



for XServe system administrators to easily update a Mac OS X server.

The previous release of Software Update client 1.4.6 provided two ways



to run the software update process: via the existing graphical user



interface within System Preferences, and as a command line tool.



Software Update client 1.4.6 was released via Security Update 7-12-02



to provide cryptographic signature verification as quickly as possible



for the more widely-used graphical user interface provided within



System Preferences.

Software Update client 1.4.7 now contains the cryptographic signature



verification via either means of invoking the software update process.



Customers can now choose to run Software Update either via the



command line or from within the System Preferences application.

Further information on the softwareupdate command line tool is



available via "man softwareupdate" after installation.

Security Update 7-18-02 may be obtained from:

• Apple's Software Downloads web site:
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  If updating from Mac OS X 10.1.1 or higher:
  
  
  
  
  http://depot.info.apple.com/security7-18/
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  If updating from Mac OS X 10.1:
  
  
  
  
  http://depot.info.apple.com/security7-18v10.1/

• Software Update pane in System Preferences (for 10.1.1 or later)
  
  
  
  

The download file for Mac OS X 10.1.1 or higher is titled:




SecurityUpdate7-18-02.dmg




Its SHA-1 digest is:
d407af740a6265730e7b56f6de5360011ce0c7c6

The download file for Mac OS X 10.1 is titled:




SecUpd7-18-02forv.10.1.dmg




Its SHA-1 digest is:
547d4614db75ce82c3f7eef822f9ef482998bf98

Information will also be posted to the Apple Product Security web



site: http://www.apple.com/support/security/security_updates.html

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