F12 i386 sha1sum check error

[Todd Zullinger]

Barry Yu wrote:
> I totally downloaded 3 times from different location including 1 by
> bit torrent but none of them can pass sha1sum check, I downloaded
> inside XP and use dssha.exe to check the f12 iso file like so:
> sha1sum Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso. And copared the result between
> Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM.txt, alway different. Can any one tell me
> what happened?

From the large red warning on the verification page¹:

    "Please note that the Hash: SHA1 line in the CHECKSUM file is part
    of the PGP signature. It does not specify the type of hash used to
    verify the .iso files.

You should use sha256sum to verify the CHECKSUM file. ;)

¹ https://fedoraproject.org/verify

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