On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:39 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote: > On Saturday 10 September 2005 11:10, Dennis Myers wrote: > > I decided to have a look at FC4 and have run into a problem with the > > servers. I have tried six times on six different mirrors for the CD set and > > twice for the DVD and on everyone the MD5sums are way incorrect. So to see > > if it was my problem I d/l'd Mandriva 2006rc1 and it came down with no > > problem? Are the SHA1sums on Fedora mirrors wrong or any suggestions? TIA > > -- > > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > > Hi Dennis: > > md5sum is known to be broken in FC4. What? Since when? Bugzilla reference? > Use sha1sum instead. That's why it shows sha1sum, not md5sum. My understanding was that sha1sum was simply a better, more secure algorithm and that was why FC4 uses that in preference to md5sum (i.e. the checksums provided are sha1sums, not md5sums). Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
