PGP signatures for packages?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:26:30PM -0400, Michael Young wrote:
>Are signatures available for the setup program, or for the packages it
>downloads?
>RPM uses GPG signatures, but I can't find anything comparable for the Cygwin
>binaries.  Even just a list of hashes would be worthwhile (ideally vended from
>a secure Cygwin/Redhat web page) to verify that a mirror (or download) hasn't
>been corrupted.  Real PGP signatures would be better.  I can live without tool
>support -- I can do the verifications manually, but only if I can find the
>signatures :-).
>
>I saw a note back in December
>(http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00950.html)
>that touched on this, but I couldn't find any followup.  Did this wither on the
>vine?

No.  It's actually part of the current setup.exe.

FWIW, md5sums in the download directories have been available for years.

cgf

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