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Re: MD5s of setup.exe on mirrors.
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:58:59PM -0700, Alexander Sotirov wrote:
>>ls-cygwin-2006@m-e-leypold.de wrote:
>>> Cygwin mirrors have in their toplevel a setup.exe and an md5.sum. The
>>> m5sum is
>>>
>>> ae1944f528338033bab3b4710d5bd736 setup.bz2
>>> b31ddcef84f25919a5d3184167b4a90d setup.exe
>>> 0503889504b7ff0b23e65586a522b3ad setup.ini
>>>
>>> whereas the setup.exe has actually the md5sum:
>>>
>>> fbc848393ed05ef4f51a253f75bcafeb
>>>
>>> I checked that for ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/cygwin/setup.exe and
>>> ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/ftp/cygwin/setup.exe
>>> and some others.
>>
>>I reported this in January: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00006.html
>>
>>Nobody seemed to care. Considering the fact that MD5 collisions are now trivial
>>to generate, it probably doesn't matter much anyways - the fact that your copy
>>of setup.exe has the right MD5 doesn't mean that it hasn't been tampered with.
>
> We don't control the content of mirrors.
>
> If you think this is an issue, contact the mirror(s) in question.
>
> cgf
I've only checked some mirrors. Since all have those same setup.exe,
my idea was, that it would be the original (do I even have access to
that -- I think I'm supposed not to dowloed from there?) server which
is also carrying this other executable.
Therefore my advice to check there (and I trust you're controlling the
master server?), but of course I might be totally confused and
mistaking all and everything.
Regards -- Markus
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