F12 checksum file says it is SHA1 but it is SHA256

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 18 19:27:58 UTC 2009


On 11/19/2009 12:54 AM, Stefan Grosse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the file Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM which is on the mirrors and included in
> the torrents says:
> 
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> f0ad929cd259957e160ea442eb80986b5f01daaffdbcc7e5a1840a666c4447c7
> *Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso
> 
> But the truth is that it is SHA256. (I downloaded the DVD twice because
> of this...) So maybe someone could change that if I am right?

It is a SHA256 and the CHECKSUM file is gpg signed. SHA1 in the top
indicates the hash of the gpg key and not the checksum file.

Rahul




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