Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:41:08 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bittorrent secure? Message-ID: <20050127214108.GB3383@gicco.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <41F6C0EE.1070801@mac.com> References: <20050125192253.GA3088@gicco.homeip.net> <41F6A281.8030601@mac.com> <20050125205819.GA3574@gicco.homeip.net> <41F6C0EE.1070801@mac.com>
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On Jan 25 at 16:58, Chuck Swiger spoke: > Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > On Jan 25 at 14:48, Chuck Swiger spoke: > >>You need to have an external source of information which specifies a > >>checksum or MD5 hash to confirm that the file has not been tampered with. > > > >That to say I should download CHECKSUM.MD5 from one of the public > >FTP-servers by hand and do the MD5 checks myself, right? > > Yes indeed, or use the files in a context like the ports tree, which does > this sort of checking for you. Ok, I forgot to mention that I thought of the ISO images of 4.11-RELEASE (or ISO images of future releases). This has probably noting to do with the ports tree. So the CHECKSUM.MD5 file from an FTP-server is still required. -Hanspeter
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