Re: All the md5 hashes in every single update message sent to this list

["Zach C." <fxchip () gmail com>]

They do this so that people who are manually installing or updating software
can also verify that the package they are installing is, in fact, the exact
same one that the software packager released -- this reduces (but not
eliminates) the chance that someone malicious may have been able to slip
something into the update package unnoticed by the installer or the
packager.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:22 PM, B1towel <ben () b1towel com> wrote:

> What is the purpose of all the patch notification emails that when a
> security vulnerability is fixed the people who send out the notification
> email include a 5 mile long list of md5 hashes for every single package and
> all dependancies for the package that was updated? I feel that information
> does not need to be in the notification that the latest version fixed a
> security vulnerability, and to me it just gets in the way of reading the
> occasionally useful content this list has to offer.
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