MD5s of setup.exe on mirrors.

Alexander Sotirov asotirov@determina.com
Fri May 11 20:24:00 GMT 2007


ls-cygwin-2006@m-e-leypold.de wrote:
> Cygwin mirrors have in their toplevel a setup.exe and an md5.sum. The
> m5sum is
> 
>   ae1944f528338033bab3b4710d5bd736  setup.bz2
>   b31ddcef84f25919a5d3184167b4a90d  setup.exe
>   0503889504b7ff0b23e65586a522b3ad  setup.ini
> 
> whereas the setup.exe has actually the md5sum:
> 
>   fbc848393ed05ef4f51a253f75bcafeb
> 
> I checked that for ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/cygwin/setup.exe and
> ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/ftp/cygwin/setup.exe
> and some others.

I reported this in January: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00006.html

Nobody seemed to care. Considering the fact that MD5 collisions are now trivial
to generate, it probably doesn't matter much anyways - the fact that your copy
of setup.exe has the right MD5 doesn't mean that it hasn't been tampered with.

Alex

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