Technical Tip: How to find firmware image checksums

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Description

This article describes how to find firmware image checksums.

Solution

The MD5 checksums for all Fortinet software and firmware releases are available at the Customer Service & Support portal, https://support.fortinet.com.
After logging in, there are two ways to download the checksums.

1) Option 1 :

Go to Support -> Download menu, select Firmware Image Checksums, enter the image file name including the extension, and select 'Get Checksum Code'.

 

2) Option 2:

Go to Support -> Download menu, select Firmware Download.
Check that Select Product is FortiGate and select the Download tab.
Open the respective firmware file path and select the firmware for the FortiGate unit, select the 'Checksum' hyperlink to Get Checksum Code.

  

See the following documentation on how to check the MD5 checksum of the downloaded file on the link below:

Technical Tip: How to verify downloaded firmware checksum