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Re: PGP signatures for packages?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 23:43:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: PGP signatures for packages?
- References: <000501c1fd52$a512c1a0$c23fa8c0@transarc.ibm.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:26:30PM -0400, Michael Young wrote:
>Are signatures available for the setup program, or for the packages it
>downloads?
>RPM uses GPG signatures, but I can't find anything comparable for the Cygwin
>binaries. Even just a list of hashes would be worthwhile (ideally vended from
>a secure Cygwin/Redhat web page) to verify that a mirror (or download) hasn't
>been corrupted. Real PGP signatures would be better. I can live without tool
>support -- I can do the verifications manually, but only if I can find the
>signatures :-).
>
>I saw a note back in December
>(http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00950.html)
>that touched on this, but I couldn't find any followup. Did this wither on the
>vine?
No. It's actually part of the current setup.exe.
FWIW, md5sums in the download directories have been available for years.
cgf
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