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From: Aniruddha <zentooist@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:52:32
Message-Id: 474BE75A.3070909@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions by Dan Farrell
1 Dan Farrell wrote:
2 > md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest
3 > dan@pascal ~ $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/md5src count=512
4 > 512+0 records in
5 > 512+0 records out
6 > 262144 bytes (262 kB) copied, 0.041335 s, 6.3 MB/s
7 > dan@pascal ~ $ md5sum /tmp/md5src
8 > 966019983a079e2bf03566d1f0eca061 /tmp/md5src
9 >
10 > if you want to verify your own download, you could download the file
11 > here:
12 > http://spore.ath.cx/~dan/md5src
13 > and check to see if you get the same checksum.
14 >
15
16 Thank you for your answer. I am afraid you go a little to fast for me.
17 What does "$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/md5src count=512" exactly do?
18
19 Regards,
20
21 Aniruddha
22
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] Binhost integrity questions Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>