Submitted 3 weeks ago by bleistift2@sopuli.xyz to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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MD5? SHA1? We increase security by not telling you.
It’s not that uncommon because they have specific lengths, so usually just by the length you can know the checksum. Of course it’s not perfect, but for file verification it’s usually MD5, SHA1, or SHA256, so the length is enough to differentiate between them.
But yeah, dick move.
It’s the first time I’ve seen it. Are we supposed to memorize the specific length of each hashing function now?
I’d just run the cli commands to check it
md5 filename sha256 filename
Etc.
As the other user said it should be one of the main ones
UBUNTU 20??!!!
That’s ancient. Not even LTS anymore.
What on earth are you downloading that needs this old software?
It’s Audacity’s AppImage. The Mint repos are terribly outdated.
You better get Tenacity.
Isn't the unofficial successor tenacity since audacity partly switched to a closed/proprietary license?
Just out of curiosity: what do you need that the newer versions have but the version on Mint is missing?
guix shell audacity – audacity
to just use
guix install audacity
to install it
Just install McAfee AND Nortons antivirus and everything will be fine
Dev must’ve thought the name meant a user was supposed to check some algorithms until they find a match.
Love KDE’s Dolphin. In the file properties you can just paste a hash and it will check the correct one for you.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had no idea that was a thing.
You're supposed to find out by trial and error. Ubuntu is gamifying security.
This has literally nothing to do with Ubuntu.
You're right! Consequently, þe joke is even less funny.
not enough digits for md5, could be sha1 yes
Just did a test of the character counts for different algorithms, here’s the number of characters for each:
| Command | Characters |
|---|---|
| md5sum | 32 |
| sha1sum | 40 |
| sha256sum | 64 |
bufalo1973@piefed.europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Maybe it's the same for all checksums? They should get a prize if they did that.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The grand unified file.