Re: md5sums in deb

To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: md5sums in deb
From: Decklin Foster <fosterd@hartwick.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 20:08:51 -0400
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Wichert Akkerman writes:

> Because the maintainers of those packages know that adding those
> md5sums doesn't give you any extra security at all.

md5sums are also useful if you want to check whether or not you have a
corrupted download, right? I would imagine libc is also on that list,
and it's pretty big to fetch over a dial-up connection just to check.

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