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[Doug Smythies <1288593@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note: See also bug 1219589

My input: The page referred to herein should be edited to point to the
real and maintained reference, and then we will not have this recurring
saga.

I am not sure, but I believe it was Matthew East that was involved in
originally having the page set to "immutable", so that the general
population could not edit it. A good idea, but now there isn't any body
in Ubuntu-docs that maintains it. It makes no sense to me to have
multiple references to maintain anyhow. We are all busy, let's put an
end to this one, as it is annoying.

Reference:
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/DVDs/ubuntu/

Hmmm... that reference doesn't seem to have 12.04.4... hmmm

However this plays out, Ubuntu-docs needs to not be involved, as we
don't have access to the page nor are we the masters of the information
anyhow.

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Title:
  Please include SHA256 or SHA512 hashes on Ubuntu Hashes page

Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Could SHA256 and/or SHA512 hashes please be included on the Ubuntu
  Hashes page (currently located at
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes ?

  Currently, only MD5 is included, and this is the only https-protected
  official page I could find with the hashes. As can be seen in the
  Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 ) and the many
  citations of source material, MD5 is no longer recommended for this
  type of usage.

  Also - would it be possible to make the Ubuntu Hashes page more
  prominent for downloaders of the various Ubuntu software? It would be
  very helpful for checking the integrity of the ISOs against
  corruption.

  Thanks in advance.

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