Care to explain the process of running checksums?

kernel.org posts their checksums, right?  What's the command line to
do a checksum of the kernel tarball?

Thanks,
Rob

> On 20010721.1444, Jacob Meuser said ...
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:56:08PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> > 
> > Should I do checksums on these or something?  I just wget the kernel
> > whenever a new one comes out.  You guys can trust me, right?  8^)
> > 
> You should probably do a checksum to make sure the download didn't
> get corrupted.  As far as whether or not we trust you ... one should
> always do a checksum test against the original author's/distributor's
> published checksum(s).  The recent compromise of SourceForge is a 
> good example of why one should not blindly trust third-party-distributed
> software.
> 
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