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<blockquote data-quote="shmu26" data-source="post: 854652" data-attributes="member: 37647"><p>A few years ago, the Linux Mint download site was hacked, and tainted ISOs were being offered. The hackers, who gained control of the site, posted there a hash that matched the tainted ISOs, so even if you checked, it would not help.</p><p>To be fair, Linux ISOs use GPG to verify authenticity, and hash is just supposed to tell you that the download is complete and uncorrupted. But not everyone checks GPG.</p><p>To the best of my knowledge, hash checking is only as good as the value you are checking it against.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shmu26, post: 854652, member: 37647"] A few years ago, the Linux Mint download site was hacked, and tainted ISOs were being offered. The hackers, who gained control of the site, posted there a hash that matched the tainted ISOs, so even if you checked, it would not help. To be fair, Linux ISOs use GPG to verify authenticity, and hash is just supposed to tell you that the download is complete and uncorrupted. But not everyone checks GPG. To the best of my knowledge, hash checking is only as good as the value you are checking it against. [/QUOTE]
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