Bug 20954: Checking OS X bundles with sha256sum does not work
Georg Koppen

Georg Koppen commited on 2016-12-13 12:47:28
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Due to Apple's codesigning requirement one can't simply compare hash
values to check whether a self-compiled bundle is matching the one we
ship. Yet our documentation seems to imply that. We should point this
problem out for now until we come up with a better solution.
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       Windows you can use the <a href="http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/">
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       hashdeep utility</a> and run
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       <pre>C:\location\where\you\saved\hashdeep -c sha256sum &lt;TOR BROWSER FILE NAME&gt;.exe</pre>
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-      On Mac or Linux you can run <pre>shasum -a 256 &lt;TOR BROWSER FILE NAME&gt;.dmg</pre> or <pre>sha256sum &lt;TOR BROWSER FILE NAME&gt;.tar.gz</pre> without having to download a utility.</li>
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+      <p>On Linux you can run</p>
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+      <pre>sha256sum &lt;TOR BROWSER FILE NAME&gt;.tar.gz</pre>
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+      without having to download a utility. Note: this does not work for OS X
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+      yet due to Apple's codesigning requirement.</li>
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       <li>You will see a string of letters and numbers.</li>
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       <li>Open <tt>sha256sums-unsigned-build.txt</tt> in a text editor.</li>
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       <li>Locate the name of the Tor Browser file you downloaded.</li>
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