Bill M. wrote:
I want to thank whoever posted the address of the site that has the 5 SuSE 9.3 Pro CD images available for BitTorrent access. BitTorrent is new to me and I've set my Windows XP laptop to use the torrent (and make my downloaded data available for others to download) -- I now have the 5 CD ISO images on my machine. The MD5Sums correspond to the sums listed on the website ( http://www.interknet.net/bt/?torrent=suse93 ). Great!
My question is: how do I know that these are authentic, unaltered SuSE distribution CDs? How do I know if these images haven't been tampered with and that the tampered MD5Sums have been included? Of course I verify that posted sum correctly.
Please... don't get me wrong, I'm very appreciative that this individual has made this available as a shared resource for us SuSE Linux fans. How do I trust these images? That they don't have an embedded root kit or something else installed?
You don't know they've not been tampered with. SuSE doesn't publish the md5sums. What you can do, is compare with the original disks.