Md5sum question

[Gregory Nowak]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong below.

An md5sum is like a crc (cyclic redundancy check), which is basically
used to verify that the file transfered correctly. The md5 file is
generated by the author of whatever file you're checking the md5sum
of. Then, when you run the md5sum program, it generates the md5sum for
the file you downloaded, and then compares that md5sum to the one
found in the md5 file. I hope that makes sense.

. On the other hand,
an asc signature is when a file is signed by gpg using your public
key, so that someone knows the file really came from you.

Hth.

Greg


On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:08:03PM -0500, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote:
> Speaking of md5 files, what is the difference between md5's versus .asc files?
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