Checksum validation instructions for Windows

[Hiemanshu Sharma]

You can link and use HashCalc. Its a trusted software and i have been
using it for quite some while on my other computers.

Regards,

Hiemanshu sharma

On 10/07/2009, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi Michał,
>
> Michał Pecio wrote:
>> There are instructions for ISO checksum validation on Windows
>> available at
>>
>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en_US/sn-validating-files.html
>>
>> Maybe it would be a good idea to add link to Microsoft's own
>> SHA1/MD5 calculator
>> (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B3C93558-31B7-47E2-A663-7365C1686C08).
>> I've recently met a bit paranoid guy who complained on an Internet
>> forum that he can't verify Fedora ISO checksum on his Windows system
>> because your site doesn't provide any Windows utility for that and
>> instead it only points to some 3rd party tools, which he doesn't
>> trust.
>
> From a quick look, it doesn't appear that the MS tool can verify
> SHA-256 checksums, which is what Fedora 11 and newer use (the burning
> ISOs document needs to be updated, the documentation team is aware of
> and working on that).
>
> It's rather unfortunate that there is such a lack of quality tools for
> performing checksum verification available on the Windows platform.
>
> I can understand someone being averse to trusting a third party
> verification tool, but at the same time, if that person is running
> Windows they most certainly have much more to worry about. :)
>
> If you know of a reasonably trusted tool that can verify SHA-256
> checksums on Windows, we'd be very interested to hear about it.
>
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Regards,

Hiemanshu Sharma.