Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:38:55 +0100 From: Elias Diem <lists@webconect.ch> To: Anton Sayetsky <vsjcfm@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cryptografically signed ISO images Message-ID: <20140302183855.GA5308@hp-netbook.local> In-Reply-To: <CAFG2KCJpAkXVWsNFYs=oL-9oNz68Da0X=3jg31QrFhMAUkBL5w@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140302172759.GA4728@hp-netbook.local> <CAFG2KC%2BU7Q4U5nLgxJptZgj5VmdSNpUmEm7Q3nQjZNiMejDozg@mail.gmail.com> <20140302174314.GA4932@hp-netbook.local> <CAFG2KCJpAkXVWsNFYs=oL-9oNz68Da0X=3jg31QrFhMAUkBL5w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2014-03-02, Anton Sayetsky wrote: > Partly. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2 > > SHA-2 is a set of cryptographic hash functions (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-512/224, SHA-512/256) designed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and published in 2001 by the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). Ah well, I was looking for a signature (like PGP or something). I therefore assume that there are no crypto signatures, "only" checksums. > I forgot to say that checksums are also present in all release announcements. That might help a bit. -- Greetings Elias
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