>I'm just saying official or not, if the checksum matches - it's not malicious. End of story. Well...it would take a particularly craft individual and far too

>I'm just saying official or not, if the checksum matches - it's not malicious. End of story. Well...it would take a particularly craft individual and far too much time, but spoofing a malicious MD5 checksum should be considered plausible. The chances of it being malicious, however, are drastically reduced to such a large degree as that it is safe to consider it negligible. (Note: I only make this claim about MD5 checksums, not SHA-1 or SHA-2. I do not consider MD5 secure in any manner and my trust of SHA-1/SHA-2 isn't exactly high either.) I provide SHA-1 and MD5 checksums of any software I distribute - if only because I think it is the proper thing to do. Even if most people don't bother checking them (let alone know how to check them)