On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 06:54:55PM +0300, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >Hello, > >One thing that I consider very useful -- is the addition of MD5sum >into the ISO image itself. > >Thankfully Debian already has the tools to do this: >"implantisomd5 mydata.iso" >and >"checkisomd5 -v mydata.iso" > >This is very handy to check multiple ISOs quickly without resorting to >an external file like "isos.md5", especially when I copy the ISOs from >one Hard Disk to the next, and may forget the accompanying .md5 file. > >This idea comes from Red Hat, but it is universally convenient to use >on any ISO files.
Sorry, no: 1. This modifies the image, so the checksums we make of images *as we make them* would be broken. 2. MD6 has not been a sensible algorithm for secure hashing in a very long time. We stopped providing MD5 checksums for our images several years ago because of this. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
