Hallo, * Steve McIntyre [Mon, Sep 26 2016, 03:14:21PM]: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 09:10:37AM +0200, Stéphane Blondon wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Le 25/09/2016 à 17:57, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > >> I am slightly wondering about this new filename ending .sign. IMHO the > >> usual pattern for such files was .gpg before (for example: Release.gpg). > >> > >> This .sign looks weird, it does not tell you which format the data > >> inside might have. > > > >Can you provide an example where the extension has changed? > > > >There are signatures ending with .sign for each cd, dvd, etc. images but > >the suffix seems to be always .sign since release 3.1: > >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r0/i386/iso-cd/ > > > >it's like today: > >http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.6.0/amd64/iso-cd/ > > > >The scheme is > >{MD5, SHAx}SUMS : the checksum according to each algorithm > >{MD5, SHAx}SUMS.sign : the checksum signed by a Debian CD signing key > > Exactly - we've been using the .sign filenames for many years for CD > releases.
Uhm, ok, sorry, please forgive my failure to research. Best regards, Eduard.