8.04 md5sums

[Ioannis Vranos]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 17:29 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> What does bittorrent have to do with sum?
> 
> If you download the iso via bittorrent, you are really downloading it
> from many people you don't know. You cannot rule out that someone has
> tampered with the iso, and so verifying that the md5sum of the
> downloaded file matches the one from the (trusted) Ubuntu server is
> doubly important.


bittorrent clients perform hash checks to avoid corruption, so if you
download via bittorent you do not need to perform hash checks on your own.