You can link and use HashCalc. Its a trusted software and i have been using it for quite some while on my other computers. Regards, Hiemanshu sharma On 10/07/2009, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Michał, > > Michał Pecio wrote: >> There are instructions for ISO checksum validation on Windows >> available at >> >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en_US/sn-validating-files.html >> >> Maybe it would be a good idea to add link to Microsoft's own >> SHA1/MD5 calculator >> (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B3C93558-31B7-47E2-A663-7365C1686C08). >> I've recently met a bit paranoid guy who complained on an Internet >> forum that he can't verify Fedora ISO checksum on his Windows system >> because your site doesn't provide any Windows utility for that and >> instead it only points to some 3rd party tools, which he doesn't >> trust. > > From a quick look, it doesn't appear that the MS tool can verify > SHA-256 checksums, which is what Fedora 11 and newer use (the burning > ISOs document needs to be updated, the documentation team is aware of > and working on that). > > It's rather unfortunate that there is such a lack of quality tools for > performing checksum verification available on the Windows platform. > > I can understand someone being averse to trusting a third party > verification tool, but at the same time, if that person is running > Windows they most certainly have much more to worry about. :) > > If you know of a reasonably trusted tool that can verify SHA-256 > checksums on Windows, we'd be very interested to hear about it. > > -- > Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it. > -- Thomas Paine > > -- Regards, Hiemanshu Sharma. -- Fedora-websites-list mailing list Fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list
