-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/09/2016 01:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > It would be nice if the download page at > https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/ showed the size in bytes > alongside the filename. Not only would it be nice to know how big > the file before downloading it, I also see this as a minimal > security feature as a *first-step* in verifying the integrity of > the file. Note I'm not suggesting in any way that this is a > replacement for checking the digital signatures.
File size is depends on the actual filesystem. So it would be a really bad choice to check file integrity. It would only add info about the approximately amount of bytes you have to download. - -- Zrubi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXg0QqAAoJEC3TtYFBiXSvWOMP/RCqbd8x2tSNMDTgCc8ZH95n bAMdFvPiPitayysA6D7Lj3xCFhzNDQpCqtGz3aECJNmnpxJMtaAKe27gzw+IBPpF 5WN1HOIYntcgzh+M0uHn2T015rq/ISUZQAIdDFlH4k6wNTEzEwiEHOv+yIX82uEj wVrcz6DnU6b3Toux5H/vTdtxMrSYnH05uwIi64W0Feyp7dgeLCf46nAQjwhALVo9 JPOfbdINYiVKYuX5G3222Qi/3b+1kOqSNROJLH4oODjE85/esdPw78hhS51qDzKb m/fb+9NtNQ2TBnAD2UQb69FkOkS4hkxiAJd+h6TCu03AyLJO13J92f3VmRvxlvLl 8ztXdhcMQyjkpKKAaEe6JxxUJkKERLi3rGHsR6BF6Zdxhpr7MqBeZre4SyvyXLGp o54bXXZWBtqBJGluDxdSRK2YTe3qr5iX24UOalWIwdLvcgCDNAXHSUGG4Hyl4AoP ae0sia3B3L24EgSvgkVkJ2CFYnqUEframxkE/qurgzlVvdNqx7616AoLrMFgcmIi iRYYCeESWI8B/NeZikwsjI3FxRB0IzkcSR/TITwWH2rW3OffFH38fXhWiBWUTQ1z GKbyLvFadi79+nw/+Lh+kbZMxsw5g/s5MpWJ0/VVsZmNfLg2lEuFmbhYheTDY4Lo lA/wWwHm8aPeRWowh6iz =cUK7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/e77b6a17-3114-5233-9432-8972b44b0938%40zrubi.hu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
