-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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). - -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/y8EQ5JK61UXLur0RAj/KAJ4mojGKlm+3ZaWbJCzYanmzWfhmigCbBX66 ek6+naFZlRCZhCnl3QWA+6Q= =ZyfA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
