ftp download of FC4

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:39 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> On Saturday 10 September 2005 11:10, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > I decided to have a look at FC4 and have run into a problem with the
> > servers. I have tried six times on six different mirrors for the CD set and
> > twice for the DVD and on everyone the MD5sums are way incorrect.  So to see
> > if it was my problem I d/l'd Mandriva 2006rc1 and it came down with no
> > problem?  Are the SHA1sums on Fedora mirrors wrong or any suggestions? TIA
> > --
> > Dennis M. linux user #180842
> 
> Hi Dennis:
> 
> md5sum is known to be broken in FC4.

What? Since when? Bugzilla reference?

> Use sha1sum instead.  That's why it shows sha1sum, not md5sum.

My understanding was that sha1sum was simply a better, more secure
algorithm and that was why FC4 uses that in preference to md5sum (i.e.
the checksums provided are sha1sums, not md5sums).

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>