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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:05:26 -0700
From: Steven Monai <steve+cygwin@monai.ca>
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On 2010/03/17 6:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Oh.  Are we still talking about this?  I drifted off.
> 
> Somebody please wake me when all of this tempest in a bikeshed is over.

I don't understand the reason for the dismissive attitude.

Pretty much every other distro posts cryptographic hashes and/or
signatures with their binary downloads, so users can verify the
correctness and authenticity of downloaded files. Why doesn't Cygwin do
this?

-SM
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