[saghm]

Yep, I agree. Providing checksums for scripts to curl isn't the the norm from what I've seen, though, which I think fits in with what GP (of my original comment) was saying. Also, I'm not super convinced that most users would bother verifying the checksum; from what I've seen, most people downloading Linux distro images don't even bother verifying the checksums that are provided.

[JeremyBanks]

I'd be great if something like hashpipe could become standard on Linux for this purpose.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9318286

[saghm]

This is really cool! I hadn't heard of it before