Here's the announcement posted to freebsd-stable, which does include the checksums: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-December/076590.html

Here's the announcement posted to freebsd-stable, which does include the checksums: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-December/076590.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-Decem... In addition, that list is mirrored in several other locations so you can verify it independently from across the Internet. Personally, I feel that this is better than simply posting the checksums in the same directory as the ISO images. I do wish the announcement e-mail was GPG signed, though.