Even an Windows user could use the checksums as described by https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VerifyIsoHowto using any Linux live media.
A chicken-and-egg problem will stay, as long as the user doesn't own trusted keys to verify ownership of the Ubuntu key, that was used to sign the image's checksum. Assumed you trust the download source and that there were no attacks during the download and you only want to verify, if there were no damages regarding technically issues, than the checksum still is useful. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
