Checksums/digital signatures exist, but I don't know where to look (highly likely).

I don't think it's terribly obvious (or if they're kept elsewhere), but MD5 checksums can be found by peeking inside the CHECKSUMS file of the appropriate pumpking. Then the trick is working out who that was and then what their corresponding CPAN handle is.

Anyhoo, for the past few releases, you want to look at ...

Vers Pumpking Checksums
5.6.0 Gurusamy Sarathy http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/CHECKSUMS
5.6.1 Gurusamy Sarathy http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/CHECKSUMS
5.8.0 Jarkko Hietaniemi http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/CHECKSUMS

    --k.


In reply to Re: Digital signatures/checksums for Perl source tarballs by Kanji
in thread Digital signatures/checksums for Perl source tarballs by syxzys

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