Please help me with HASH results being wrong!

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Sat Nov 21 00:29:16 UTC 2009


Lee Clark wrote:
> Thats odd
>
> your site says SHA1

You missed the large red notice on https://fedoraproject.org/verify as
well as this paragraph in my previous reply:

I wrote:
> (The Hash: SHA1 line is part of the PGP signature.  It has no relation
> to the sha256 checksum data in the *-CHECKSUM files.
> https://fedoraproject.org/verify has details on how to verify
> downloads and does point out that sha256sum is what should be used.)

This is a common misconception.  We'll work on trying to make it
clearer in future releases.  Of course, there's only so much we can
do. ;-)

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