Re: Please add link to master MD5's

Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
In gmane.os.openbsd.www, ARothfusz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> To verify the integrity of the files I downloaded from a mirror, I would
> like to use the master MD5 file.  But that means I need to log in to the
> master site.

In -current and the forthcoming 4.6 release, the installer checks
SHA256 sums against those built-in to the install kernel and warns
you about discrepancies. So you could download the installer from the
master site..

> Oh, and MD5 is weak.  Could you switch to SHA or better?  SHA hashes can be
> calculated by openssl, sadly not as handy as md5sum for verification, but
> widely available.

Already switched, use cksum -c to verify them.
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