Hi Shaun, 
Am Mon, 5 May 2008 14:58:55 +0100 schrieb Shaun McDonald:
> 
> On 5 May 2008, at 14:36, Uwe Altmann wrote:
> 
>> Shaun McDonald schrieb:
>> 
>>> The apple disk images have a checksum built into them, so as 
>>> long as it hasn't been skipped when the disk image was mounted, 
>>> then the disk image was opened fine.

This is correct although I've seen corrupted downloads which still 
mount. So I would not abandon md5sum completely. 

>> Does this mean Apple users don't need to do a md5 check manually 
>> after download because it's done anyway into the dmgs opening 
>> process?
> 
> That's correct.
> 
> Though the check can be skipped. I have seen documentation about 
> how to speed up your mac, being to disable that check, which 
> isn't a good thing.

Yes, this is a common hint on such websites. Because of this I 
would still mention that md5 is available as well and it's more 
common for the Unix savy users, even though sha1 and other gain 
ground.

Eric

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