On Tuesday 09 February 2010 20:11 Ole Anders Andreassen wrote: > Checsums added (Thanks Jürgen) to http://www.slx.no/en/downloads, and > a short explanation about checksum are added. > > It now look like this: > Nice, I will translate to German soon. > ---- > > Checksums of the ISO Images > > md5sum and sha1sum are used to verify the integrity of files. The > checksum functions as a compact digital fingerprint of a file. It is > extremely unlikely that any two non-identical files existing in the > real world will have the same checksum hash. > > In the Wikipedia articles about md5sum and sha2sum you find external > links to utilities that can be used to verify the checksum. > > md5sum: > > 01e4ad9bcb36380076bfb19fa81a0465 debian-edu-5.0.4+edu0-CD.iso > ec3b592931491d50f10b8f7f38ad1da3 debian-edu-5.0.4+edu0-DVD.iso > c8253bc5d29b8a4d66378271d72a9f08 > debian-edu-5.0.4+edu0-source-DVD.iso > > sha1sum: > > 19041c2bb9c6a8c5ca692085379c5736522f921b > debian-edu-5.0.4+edu0-CD.iso 49883e1d714ba9df805d9f1c8bdc6bb224c98e19 > debian-edu-5.0.4+edu0-DVD.iso > 2da737ba64797eb102596eb577958ef37119cfce > debian-edu-5.0.4+edu0-source-DVD.iso > > --- > > > > Personally I like the beginning of the first checksum.... ;-) > > > OleA Yeah, that's a cool md5sum. Greetings, Jürgen Leibner -- GnuPG Key ID: 0x37FF4410 Finger-Print: CF03 BA85 654D 0EED E161 3DD5 07FF 8246 37FF 4410
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