Re: overseas PGPfone and Netscape

[Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>]

Ian Goldberg wrote:
> I haven't tried to download it myself, yet (I'm on the wrong side of a
> slow link <plug>(though it's faster since I got my new ZyXEL
> yesterday)</plug>), so maybe this is explained for me, but does netscape
> publish checksums for their US binaries?
> 
> This isn't just an issue of making sure your copy wasn't munged in transit;
> without checksums, what's stopping netscape from embedding the info you
> provide in the binary before shipping it to you, so that if it shows
> up on hacktic, they know who did it?
> 
> Could various people with various architectures post MD5 or SHA1 hashes
> of the files they downloaded?

  I'm sorry, but I don't have time to run the checksums right now.
Feel free to compare checksums of downloaded files.  You won't find
any secret tagging.  Note also that the download is via SSL.

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
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