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2023 Feb 27
1
Checksums and other verification
...for all parties to
> agree on how the hash is to be computed and checked, if it is going to
> be anything more than just a linear hash of the entire guest-visible
> contents.
Unfortunately I suspect that by far the easiest way for people who
host images to compute checksums is to run 'shaXXXsum' on them or sign
them with a GPG signature, rather than engaging in a novel hash
function. Indeed that's what is happening now:
https://alt.fedoraproject.org/en/verify.html
Rich.
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2023 Feb 28
1
Checksums and other verification
...agree on how the hash is to be computed and checked, if it is going to
>> be anything more than just a linear hash of the entire guest-visible
>> contents.
>
> Unfortunately I suspect that by far the easiest way for people who
> host images to compute checksums is to run 'shaXXXsum' on them or sign
> them with a GPG signature, rather than engaging in a novel hash
> function. Indeed that's what is happening now:
>
> https://alt.fedoraproject.org/en/verify.html
If the output is produced with unordered writes, but the complete output
needs to be verified w...
2023 Feb 28
1
Checksums and other verification
...to be computed and checked, if it is going to
> >> be anything more than just a linear hash of the entire guest-visible
> >> contents.
> >
> > Unfortunately I suspect that by far the easiest way for people who
> > host images to compute checksums is to run 'shaXXXsum' on them or sign
> > them with a GPG signature, rather than engaging in a novel hash
> > function. Indeed that's what is happening now:
> >
> > https://alt.fedoraproject.org/en/verify.html
>
> If the output is produced with unordered writes, but the complete...