MD5? SHA1? We increase security by not telling you.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not that uncommon because they have specific lengths, so usually just by the length you can know the checksum. Of course it’s not perfect, but for file verification it’s usually MD5, SHA1, or SHA256, so the length is enough to differentiate between them.

    But yeah, dick move.

  • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.comdeleted by creator
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    1 year ago

    UBUNTU 20??!!!

    That’s ancient. Not even LTS anymore.

    What on earth are you downloading that needs this old software?