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Subject:	RE: Cygwin CD question
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Date:	Tue, 14 May 2002 09:29:13 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"William Nicholson" <WVNicholson AT lbl DOT gov>,
	"Harold L Hunt" <huntharo AT msu DOT edu>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William V. Nicholson [mailto:wvnicholson AT lbl DOT gov] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 7:11 AM
> To: Harold L Hunt
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Cygwin CD question
> 
> 
> 
> The point is that if you are really paranoid about these 
> things then someone might slip in a trojan or backdoor while 
> you are downloading Cygwin.  Obviously, if you subsequently 
> set up an integrity tool then your system together with the 
> backdoor would check out as okay (possibly until it got 
> infected with a second backdoor or whatever). I don't really 
> have those kind of security requirements but I like to do 
> things right if I can; but I'll just accept that I have to 
> download it, Thanks, William

You can look at the md5sums on the mirror sites and see if they match
what you downloaded.

You can also compare md5 sums across mirror sites - if they don't match,
somebody has twiddled something.

Rob

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