Re: Torented .iso Hash mismatch

[Ricky Zhou]

On 2010-05-24 04:43:06 PM, Migaaresno wrote:
> I downloaden the following torrent:
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-12-i686-Live.torrent
>
> And got a hash mismatch. See attachment.
>
> But i was under the impression torrented files could not easily get
> corrupted due to the fact the torrent already contain a hash. Whats
> going on?

Hi, the hash for Fedora ISOs is a sha256 hash, not sha1.  The "SHA1" in
the checksum file refers to the hash used to sign the file, not the type
of the hashes contained in it.

Thanks,
Ricky