SHA1 and 256 (again) :)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 18 20:56:19 UTC 2009


On 11/19/2009 02:20 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:30:37AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> As suspect, there's already posts on the forums about this.  (Smugly
> mutters, "told ya so".  :)
> 
> Seriously, someone pointed out that some docmentation, the docs for
> burning CD's seem to indicate that one should use sha1.   
> 
> 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en_US/sn-validating-files.html
> 
> That should probably get fixed--I'm not sure if I have write access, and
> I don't have a Windows machine to test the instructions, so someone?

Refer to

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2009-November/msg00047.html

Note that changing HASH: SHA1 to anything else in the top of the file
will make the gpg check fail since it writes it out that way. So it's
sort of a tricky issue to solve. Not sloppiness.

Rahul




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