29 FEWRALQ 2012 G. 8:44 POLXZOWATELX Nathan Stiles
<stiles.nat...@gmail.com>NAPISAL:

> Hello,
> I've recently installed 5.0 and based upon my experience
> I expected a checksum to be posted for the ISO.
> Also I've noticed that HTTPS isn't implemented on openbsd.org.
> I was also expecting the checksum to be served over HTTPS.
>

if you mean public SSL certs, it's about $500/year.
are you willing to pay for SSL certs ?

I can do the rest. I have installed tens ssl-enabled services.



> I'm sure theres a good reason why this isn't necessary?
>

the reason is "you can download source code, look at it, make sure for
yourself there's no backdoors, build your own ISO from source code"

I wonder why you are not doing that with every ISO (which you prefer to
download via torrent).


> I want to check the files I've downloaded against something?
> Obviously I can check a few random mirrors to ensure
> that files are identical.  What are others doing?
>

other are doing what they want :-)
it's an opensource. you can also do what you want.


>
> Thanks,
> Nathan

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