[pca] MD5 value for pca download only in "hover window"

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Tue Aug 9 10:41:15 CEST 2011


James,

> My request is:
> 
> Put the MD5 value as a text string somewhere on the page.

Ok, I've changed that now.

Still, IMHO, listing checksums on the same webpage as the downloadable file 
doesn't make much sense, security-wise. If an attacker can modify the script, he 
most probably can change the checksum on the webpage as well. That's why I 
include the checksum in the postings to the pca-news mailing list, to have a 
second independent channel.

You can also get PCA via HTTPS, BTW:

   https://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/stable/pca

hth,
Martin.



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