[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Alpha V8.4-2L1 Layered Product Subset Available

[Simon Clubley]

On 2017-07-09, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2017-07-09 kl. 23:30, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> 
>> Are there any cryptographic signature or hash files to allow you to
>> verify the ISOs after you have downloaded them ?
>
> Each .ISO file also has a .ISO_VNC file. The download instructions says:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> If you are already running VSI OpenVMS Alpha V8.4-2L1 you can use the
> VMS Notary to validate the kit:
>
> $! Extract the Alpha V8.4-2L2 ISO image file
> $ run ALPHA0842L2.ZIPEXE
> UnZipSFX 6.01 of 29 September 2014, by Info-ZIP (http://www.info-zip.org).
> inflating: ALPHA0842L2.ISO
> extracting: ALPHA0842L2.ISO_VNC
> $ show symbol notary
> NOTARY == "$VMS_NOTARY.EXE"
> $ notary -i ALPHA0842L2.ISO_VNC
> Success
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Of course *I* cannot do that since we do not run VSI OpenVMS yet...
>

Interesting; thanks Jan-Erik.

I still think it would be a good idea to generate a more standard
hash or signature so the .ISO can be verified on a non-VMS system
before you run any code present in the .ISO.

Simon.

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