MD5 checksums for images

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms at 1407.org
Mon Jan 12 22:13:05 CET 2009


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:46:35PM +0100, Fernando Martins wrote:
> I've downloaded images for om2008.12, FSO and SHR and something that 
> puzzles me is the lack of MD5 checksums on these repositories. The sums 
> would just take a couple of minutes to put there, so I'm wondering if 
> there is some other check going on by dfu before flashing??

Whoever cares about MD5 checksums, nowadays, is putting up a farse, at
least demand SHA256 ;)

Rui

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