slackware iso's

[Thomas Stivers]

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On 12/01/03  5:12 PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote:
> Hi gang,
> What do you do with the .asc and .md5 files associated with the slackware
> iso's?  I think they have something to do with checking the accuracy of the
> iso image but not sure how to use them.

They are an md5 checksum and ascii armored openpgp signature. To make
use of them you will need the program md5sum (in the textutils package I
believe) and either gpg or pgp. For the md5 file do "md5sum -c
<md5filename>" and for the asc file use "gpg --verify <ascfilename>".
For the signature you will need the public key of
security at slackware.com, which is available on pgp keyservers everywhere
(I.E. wwwkeys.pgp.net). 

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carefully than others.
Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD
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