On 10/14/12 3:09 PM, Robert Kaiser wrote: > David E. Ross schrieb: >> I go to the FTP server so that I can also download the related SHA1 >> checksum. > > FYI, if you use the SeaMonkey-internal update mechanism, you get both > the advantages of using as-local-as-possible mirrors *and* verification > with a checksum that is not just SHA-1 but SHA-512 - and the checksum > and other info about the update is coming via an encrypted connection > (SSL) that is only allowed to be signed by certain CAs, so that the > delivery mechanism is *really* secure. > > Robert Kaiser >
Having to maintain two PCs, I prefer to download the update and then install from my hard drive. For incremental updates via .mar files, I developed a .bat file script to do this. What I really want is to download once and install twice. The internal update capability would download twice to install twice. I recently obtained an application to compute and verify SHA512 checksums. While Thunderbird updates on the FTP servers have SHA512 checksums as well as MD5 and SHA1, SeaMonkey updates on the FTP servers have only MD5 and SHA1. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
