Cryptografically signed ISO images

Anton Sayetsky vsjcfm at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 17:49:30 UTC 2014


2014-03-02 19:43 GMT+02:00 Elias Diem <lists at webconect.ch>:
> Hi Anton
>
> On 2014-03-02,  Anton Sayetsky wrote:
>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/9.2/
>
> In this directory I can't see a crypto signature. Am I
> blind?
Partly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
> SHA-2 is a set of cryptographic hash functions (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-512/224, SHA-512/256) designed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and published in 2001 by the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).

I forgot to say that checksums are also present in all release announcements.


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