Checksum doesn't match

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, George Sinclair wrote:

> I have down loaded the latest version of GnuPG and running md5 against 
> the .gz file (gnupg-1.0.1.tar.gz) produces the following:
> 
> MD5 (gnupg-1.0.1.tar.gz) = 14ce577afd03d56cba5d8ee59b9580ed
> 
> According to the README file, however, I should see this:
> 
> fd9351b26b3189c1d577f0970f9dcadc  gnupg-x.y.z.tar.gz

Did you notice the x.y.z?  This is an example.  BTW, it is not so easy 
to insert an MD5sum into the checksummed file - if you are going to
try it, take a lot of machines and plenty of time to calculate
so-called collisions.

> I have attempted several down-loads and they always result in the
> first sum.

I'd suggest to try just another download; this time with gnupg-1.0.2.

I have posted the md5sums to the list - see http://lists.gnupg.org

  Werner

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