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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:37, 12 May 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Download each of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">released </del>files <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from </del>SourceForge.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Go to </ins>the files <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">area for the new release out at [https://sourceforge.net/projects/nst/files/NST/ </ins>SourceForge<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Run </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">command: "md5sum" </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">compute </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">MD5 checksum value for each file downloaded</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Open </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">folder </ins>to the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">directory that you just copied the release files to</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>      </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>      </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Verify that </del>the checksum values <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">match what was published </del>at SourceForge <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the release notes</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Click on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">information icon to display the MD5 </ins>checksum values at SourceForge.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>      </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>      </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Verify that the checksum values match what <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">appears </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">associated </del>release <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">file (''include/</del>manifest<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/release-${VERSION}.xml'').</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Verify that the checksum values match what <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">you computed earlier and put </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">updated </ins>release manifest file.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Verify that each downloaded </del>file <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is valid (can be used for its intended purpose)</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> </table>

Paul Blankenbaker https://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nstwiki/index.php?title=Download_And_Verify_MD5_Values&diff=1761&oldid=prev 2009-09-23T13:46:57Z

<p>New page: * Download each of the released files from SourceForge. * Run the command: &quot;md5sum&quot; to compute the MD5 checksum value for each file downloaded. * Verify that the checksum values matc...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>* Download each of the released files from SourceForge.<br /> <br /> * Run the command: &quot;md5sum&quot; to compute the MD5 checksum value for each file downloaded.<br /> <br /> * Verify that the checksum values match what was published at SourceForge in the release notes.<br /> <br /> * Verify that the checksum values match what appears in the associated release file (&#039;&#039;include/manifest/release-${VERSION}.xml&#039;&#039;).<br /> <br /> * Verify that each downloaded file is valid (can be used for its intended purpose).</div>

Paul Blankenbaker