On 2007-01-09T14:01, Peter Philipp wrote:
...
> At that point (if you look at the timestamp) it's been 4 hours since the 
> OpenBSD main source did a change in the kernel versions and all the other 
> mirrors hadn't picked up the changes.  So there was a checksum mismatch.  I 
> was wondering whether a history file of checksums is a good thing to include 
> on 
> the main ftp site?  That way one can check whether older revisions of 
> binaries are the right checksum?  Otherwise one would not know (and there 
> would be no point of checksums then right?).  

it would be simpler to sign all the tgz with gzsig (1) and verify the
tgz with a offical key. Of course this has to be done by the OpenBSD
devs.

so long,

Marcus.

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