Monday, September 7, 2020

Validate integrity of VirtualBox downloaded files on Mac

$ openssl dgst -sha256 VirtualBox-6.1.14-140239-OSX.dmg 
SHA256(VirtualBox-6.1.14-140239-OSX.dmg)= 3abeee4822707db2f949431391dba27827840aa5390a9ec4e1bafdc5c8c3aaaa

$ openssl dgst -sha256 Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.14.vbox-extpack
SHA256(Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.14.vbox-extpack)= b224e796e886b19bce69f0aaedf6ca82bad0ca29c61fb0ed86166efb84356942

3abeee4822707db2f949431391dba27827840aa5390a9ec4e1bafdc5c8c3aaaa *VirtualBox-6.1.14-140239-OSX.dmg
b224e796e886b19bce69f0aaedf6ca82bad0ca29c61fb0ed86166efb84356942 *Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.14.vbox-extpack

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