F12 checksum file says it is SHA1 but it is SHA256

darrell pfeifer darrellpf at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 19:36:08 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:27, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On 11/19/2009 12:54 AM, Stefan Grosse wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the file Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM which is on the mirrors and included in
> > the torrents says:
> >
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > f0ad929cd259957e160ea442eb80986b5f01daaffdbcc7e5a1840a666c4447c7
> > *Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso
> >
> > But the truth is that it is SHA256. (I downloaded the DVD twice because
> > of this...) So maybe someone could change that if I am right?
>
> It is a SHA256 and the CHECKSUM file is gpg signed. SHA1 in the top
> indicates the hash of the gpg key and not the checksum file.
>
>
> Perhaps it could be made more clear. I almost made the same double download
mistake.

darrell
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