On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com > wrote:
> On 02/21/2016 06:49 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > > According to > > > > > http://fossforce.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hacked-iso-for-17-3-cinnamon-edition-modified/ > > > > Original web site posting here: > > > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 > > > > Be careful out there. > > And he says "check its MD5 signature".... Check 'em all :-) > > If you're ever in a position to use hashes/checksums in your own project, > check out the "Lifetimes of popular cryptographic hashes" chart first: > > http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html > > And then check back regularly :) And hashes are not just for security. Ms Aurora worked on both ZFS and btrfs. Those filesystems use the hashes for ECC. If the hash for a block is wrong, they get the dupe block (in RAID-1, etc) with a good hash and fix it. Object FS like S3, swift, ceph use hashes also. Collisions are particularly bad for ECC.
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