In message "Ruby 1.6.8 md5 sum?"
    on 03/01/07, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs / dmu.ac.uk> writes:

|Could someone kindly confirm that the md5 sum for the tgz is:
|
|MD5 (ruby-1.6.8.tar.gz) = bf48d49dbd94b5c0eda5f75b3bfbac16
|
|please?  A trawl through the arhives did not find this information.

md5sum for the archive on my local disk:

bf48d49dbd94b5c0eda5f75b3bfbac16  /home/matz/work/ruby/archive/ruby-1.6.8.tar.gz

|Putting this information on the same machine as the file itself
|would not help, because both the file and the alleged digest could
|both be tampered with if the machine were compromised.  Is it worth
|holding this sort of data on RubyCentral and/or a non-wiki part of
|RubyGarden?

It should be included in the announce mail (it used to be).  Please
forgive my omission.

							matz.