8.04 md5sums

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 17:29 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> What does bittorrent have to do with sum?

If you download the iso via bittorrent, you are really downloading it
from many people you don't know. You cannot rule out that someone has
tampered with the iso, and so verifying that the md5sum of the
downloaded file matches the one from the (trusted) Ubuntu server is
doubly important.