As a followup to my previous email, I calculated that the md5sum for
the PricelessWare ISO image is
84c38c612bd2dce3e4b2836fa8585713
which entirely agrees with that published at
http://mirrors.unoc.net/pricelessware/
So the ISO image at that site has not been tampered with.
For those wanting to take the easy route to the verification of the
ISO image, and have python, I have written a script to help you:
#begin ----------------------------------------
#check the PricelessWare CD checksum
import md5
f = file("pw2004.iso", "rb").read()
m = md5.new()
m.update(f)
iso = m.hexdigest()
confirmed = "84c38c612bd2dce3e4b2836fa8585713"
if iso == confirmed: result = "pass"
else: result = "fail"
txt = "%s : you\n%s : confirmed value\nresult=%s" % (iso, confirmed,
result)
print txt
file("iso-result.txt", "w").write(txt) #write results to file
#end ----------------------------------------
Simply save the script as, say, iso.py, in the same directory as the
iso image. Run it to see if you get a yea or nae on it. The results
are echoed to the console and a file called iso-result.txt
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