<![CDATA[Sha256 checksum issue]]>Trying to verify the sha256 checksum using the Mac terminal and it doesn't match what is shown for the checksum on the download page or in the sha256 checksum file.

The checksum file matches what is shown on the download page.  Not sure what I'm doing wrong here…

For verifying the sha256 checksum of the downloaded file:

$ openssl dgst -sha256 pfSense-CE-memstick-2.3.1-RELEASE-amd64.img
SHA256(pfSense-CE-memstick-2.3.1-RELEASE-amd64.img)=
0a492bff86719e298dc682e7135eae83a30091efc2e0a9357918aedd23ddd511

For reading the sha256 checksum file:

$ cat pfSense-CE-memstick-2.3.1-RELEASE-amd64.img.gz.sha256
SHA256 (pfSense-CE-memstick-2.3.1-RELEASE-amd64.img.gz) =
9479878067d6a008672d1180646c99a098e48a58228010293134af9ad711b215

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/101965/sha256-checksum-issueRSS for NodeSun, 07 Jun 2026 10:28:43 GMTThu, 23 Jun 2016 20:17:19 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Sha256 checksum issue on Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:59:29 GMT]]>Thanks, didn't realize it was a .gz file that was being downloaded

Apparently Safari automatically converts .gz files before placing in the download folder.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/633825https://forum.netgate.com/post/633825Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:59:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Sha256 checksum issue on Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:38:09 GMT]]>you check the hash against the gz you download not the img you extract from the gz

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