I just downloaded
http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-0.11.0.tar.bz2
http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-0.11.0.tar.bz2.md5
http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-stable.tar.bz2
http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-stable.tar.bz2.md5
http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-stable.tar.gz
http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-stable.tar.gz.md5
While the checksums match on the 0.11.0 archive, they do not on the
current-stable one:
% cat elinks-current-stable.tar.bz2.md5
0b96713dbe2575de71879c1c8d227636 elinks-current-stable.tar.bz2
% md5sum elinks-current-stable.tar.bz2
cc4f946be41dec5bef5957fd9786f945 elinks-current-stable.tar.bz2
% cat elinks-current-stable.tar.gz.md5
effb899f95b9fe1c0a9dd67099e8b3cb elinks-current-stable.tar.gz
% md5sum elinks-current-stable.tar.gz
7c0ba6139ac98700672ad1f98dac6fc5 elinks-current-stable.tar.gz
I strongly urge elinks developers to move away from separate checksum
files, which are only useful to validating integrity of downloads;
they are useless against tampering, and that is the big problem on the
Internet today. In 2003, ftp.gnu.org was compromised, in 2004,
www.mozilla.org, and this morning carried news that knoppix-std.org
has been a victim.
Please consider moving to digital signatures, as the GNU Project now
requires, with signatures properly registered in several key servers.
There is a tutorial on how to do this under my picture on my home
page:
http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/PGP-notes.html
We also discuss the topic in section 10.7.4 of our book, Classic Shell
Scripting:
http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/books/css/
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