BackTrack successor Kali Linux launched

Re:BackTrack successor Kali Linux launched by faster on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @01:16PM (#5369718)

Grabbed the torrent. The md5sum of the ISO doesn't match the one listed in the included txt file. This concerns me a little.

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Re:BackTrack successor Kali Linux launched by tripzilch on Thursday March 14, 2013 @05:43AM (#5373986)

did the same, also got a mismatch.

then I realized, that the hash in the txtfile is also longer than the md5 sum, and facepalmed a little. with 40 hexdigits long, makes 160 bits, so it's probably SHA1.

(crunch, crunch) ... and it matches. would've been nice if they'd mentioned which algorithm they used so I didn't have to digest a 2GB file twice. we can't be the only people that don't immediately eyeball the difference between a 32 and 40 digit random hex code :)

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Re:BackTrack successor Kali Linux launched by eruditely on Thursday March 14, 2013 @01:10AM (#5373197)

Not enough attention given to this reply.

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