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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:38:55 +0100
From: Elias Diem <lists@webconect.ch>
To: Anton Sayetsky <vsjcfm@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cryptografically signed ISO images
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On 2014-03-02,  Anton Sayetsky wrote:

> Partly.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
> > SHA-2 is a set of cryptographic hash functions (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-512/224, SHA-512/256) designed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and published in 2001 by the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).

Ah well, I was looking for a signature (like PGP or 
something).

I therefore assume that there are no crypto signatures, 
"only" checksums.

> I forgot to say that checksums are also present in all release announcements.

That might help a bit.

-- 
Greetings
Elias