[arm-allstar] RPi2 image file shasums-- Was: Arch vulnerabilities

David McGough kb4fxc at inttek.net
Fri May 1 06:39:05 EST 2015


Fred,

Never mind about the last. The shasum for the unzipped image is what you 
specified.

root at testserv/RPi2# unzip RPi2_V1.0_Allstar.zip

root at testserv/RPi2# shasum RPi2_V1.0_Allstar.img 
d1b4d6367d6b2cd7bcaf6ee613d6243da3e1ddd1  RPi2_V1.0_Allstar.img

Size: 4,089,446,400 bytes


73, David KB4FXC



On Fri, 1 May 2015, David McGough wrote:

> 
> Hi Fred,
> 
> It appears that still don't have the correct image. The stats are:
> 
> root at testserv/RPi2# shasum RPi2_V1.0_Allstar.zip 
> 5498bea63d11de3edd10294d68256005653e8ff6  RPi2_V1.0_Allstar.zip
> 
> And the file size is: 540,626,394 bytes
> 
> Once unzipped, the binary flash image will be just smaller than 4GB in 
> size.
> 
> Typically, the zip container will provide a very high degree of file
> integrity for guarding against download failures, since it internally 
> includes a checksum....What version of unzip are you using?
> 
> And, to answer your question about significant security issues, should one 
> occur, we'll release a patched downloadable image, and depending on 
> complexity, perhaps a tarball of replacement binares as well.
> 
> Sorry you're having problems,
> 
> 73, David KB4FXC
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 May 2015, Fred Moore wrote:
> 
> > Hate to reply to myself.. but I should have included the shasum of the
> > image I was using (downloaded)
> > 
> > d1b4d6367d6b2cd7bcaf6ee613d6243da3e1ddd1
> > 
> > Regards.. Fred
> > 
> > On 5/1/15 3:38 AM, Fred Moore wrote:
> > > Just curious how vulnerabilities are planned for... has a system (other
> > > than) ABS/Packman been thought out or incorporated into this custom Arch
> > > distribution..  if so is app-rpt going to be just a source package in
> > > the future, how is this going to be handled.. I am wondering about
> > > updates..  patches or ???
> > >
> > > For some reason when I dd the image to a 16G class 4 card it took almost
> > > 2 hours.. I was monitoring the process with isotat, it appeared that
> > > some block sequences were transmitted several times each second.. 
> > > anyone else seeing this.. I ran this with two different files with the
> > > same result.. ???  Both file's checksum agreed.
> > >
> > > BTW I tested with Rasbarian image and it finished in about 15 minutes
> > > and didn't seem to be having any problem when monitored with iostat.  I
> > > did veryify the sha of all files I downloaded with each other... 
> > >
> > > Doug if I may be so bold, would you mind publishing the sha checksum's
> > > on the website, so we don't have to download several times and compare
> > > to each other, and are able to verify a 100% correct download..   you
> > > might also think about a code signature.. so we know code that is not
> > > from you, but somehow will get out in the wild.. 
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the hard work... regards.. Fred
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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