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Re: md5 hashes used in security announcements



On 2008-10-25 07:09, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> Can anyone please explain why that long list of links and filenames is 
> interesting, or point to a link that does?

I assume, it's tradition from the times, when only few people
used apt-get and friends (and many years apt-get did not have
signature support). A pointer to a "generic" description for
people who don't want to/cannot use apt-get would be sufficient
nowadays. Could someone from the security team correct me?


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