On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 Jude DaShiell wrote:
I have had multiple verification failures checking an iso with a sha256sum verification file and am wondering if that program and the rest of the shaxxxsum programs have one or more bugs that could account for these failures.
Let the sha256sum program be a box of test strips that indicate presence of poison. Let the files you provide the sha256sum program be a beverage. If a single test indicated poison, my first thought would not be, "Maybe the test strips are defective". And if *repeated* tests indicated poison, and did so consistently, my first thought would not *definitely* not be, "Maybe the test strips are defective". It is admittedly an imperfectly simplified analogy, but I think my point ought to be clear enough. -- Ce qui est important est rarement urgent et ce qui est urgent est rarement important -- Dwight David Eisenhower
