[fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.4 released!

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-11-30 22:26, Tomas Hajny wrote:
> Checksums may indeed be created / calculated rather easily. However, that
> is not enough. The checksums must get to the end user in secured way as
> well, otherwise it makes no sense.


As the saying goes... Take a page from the playbook of FreeBSD or any 
Linux distro for that matter.

   http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.1/

or

  http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.ubuntu.com/17.10/

In summary, a single CHECKSUM file listing each file and its related 
checksum. This is a standard layout that many tools can handle and can 
be used to verify many files in one go. There are tools that can 
generate these complete files too.

On a side note:
   MD5 and SHA1 is loosing popularity (but still better than nothing).
   SHA256 or SHA512 should now be the norm.


Regards,
   Graeme

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