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Date: Wed,  2 Mar 2005 22:01:48 -0500
From: "William K. Josephson" <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] invalid md5/sha1 on plan9port.tgz
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:52:10PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > It isn't as if the hash really helps since
> > the hash and the distribution are sitting on the same
> > filesystem in the first place.
>
> The hash is to allow people to check for network errors during
> download, not swtch.com file system corruption.

I figured it was for those of us with tin-foil hats :-/