8.04.1 release, md5 hashes

Neal McBurnett neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
Sun Jul 6 05:19:29 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:26:46PM -0700, Connor Imes wrote:
> The HowToMD5SUM page is dished out all the time on the forums to users 
> who sound like they have bad downloads or disc burns, and it links 
> directly to UbuntuHashes.  There is a note at the bottom of the page 
> about adding info about MD5SUMS.gpg, but has not been implemented on the 
> wiki.
> 
> > I also updated https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto to
> > talk about both the MD5SUMS and MD5SUMS.gpg files.
> >
> > Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
> >   
> That's a good note to make, you may want to expand on it there and/or on 
> the HowToMD5SUM page.

Right - I noticed that other page and did it also :)

I also submitted this bug based on an earlier conversation (which
belongs on another list and which we shouldn't rehash here - heh):

 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/245953
 Publish hashes stronger than MD5 for isos: sha-256 and whirlpool

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/




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