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Every time I download Raspbian (last time Raspbian Stretch with desktop) I try to verify SHA256. However, every time the result is different from the one on the website, although I am quite sure the download was successful and without manipulation.

Why is that? Am I calculating in a wrong way?

The last time I generated the sha256 on OSX with the command shasum -a 256 2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch.img

Francesco Boi
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The SHA-256 checksum on the downloads page is for the ZIP file, not the IMG file.

Dirk
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