Resource A quick guide on validating the PPeH's legitimacy

[HopelessFight]

I have noticed @RainAndSadness's PPeH (August 2021 version) is being reuploaded to different sources and spread around the forum. Since there have been quite some sophisticated scams of these PDF's in the past, I have decided to create a small guide how you can validate whether you have downloaded the version uploaded by RainAndSadness, which is confirmed to be legit.

Step 1:
Press shift and right click the folder where you downloaded the PDF in. The usual right-click menu should appear, with one extra option: "Open Powershell window here". Select this option to open Powershell:


Step 2:
Copy and paste the line below in the newly opened blue window. If you have changed the file name, change it here as well:

Get-Filehash '.\PPH August Edition.pdf'



Step 3:
Confirm the result is this hash:
67ADA9BB371F037799B183B3364DA159B7F946ED621C36B713859D69351A2775

There's no need to obsessivily check this letter by letter. If someone tampers with the file, even changing just one letter, the generated hash will be completely different. Renaming the file will not result in a different hash.

Voila, that's it. If you get the above output, you are in possession of the legit PDF. If the hash doesn't match, it could mean 2 things:
1) Someone tampered with the file.
2) You've downloaded a PDF that was generated and uploaded by someone else. I highly recommend to stick to the PPeH uploaded by RainAndSadness since we know her uploads are reliable and legit.

Note: The hash above is only valid for the August 2021 version. Uploads of previous versions, as well as uploads of future versions, will have a completely different hash.

(Special thanks to @RainAndSadness for sharing these resources with the community!)

 

[juraviel]

good job. as one of the people that "passed around" the book, that's exactly what i was looking for.
what you could do though is in fact change the contents of the file just a bit, so that it has a different hash, because then it isn't going to be automatically taken down by file hosters.
you could also provide the download link in your post as a backup since the main thread still has an expired one.

 

[GreenMile]

Nice, this is very useful

 

[stutter]

Can someone Pm me a link to the right Book? Somehow it is not downloadable form the resources thread :(

 

[Nametagged]

This is really helpful. I would also personally like to thank @RainAndSadness for all of her hard work to keep this information safe and accessible.

 

[GreenMile]

Yes, second that thanks to @RainAndSadness for getting vital information out to those in such desperate need.

@stutter there is this link from @juraviel for the latest PPH. There's an ad to work around though (it opens a second tab, so you have to go back to the first one), just so you're aware.

 

[HopelessFight]

Can someone Pm me a link to the right Book? Somehow it is not downloadable form the resources thread :(

I have not included any link in my post on purpose, since I don't control any of these uploads. However, as you can see, people are already giving you links.

 

[disabledlife]

@RainAndSadness your PPeh pdf links are removed by mega.

 

[lowlk]

Unless the hash was under the original download link, then this doesnt really solve anything.

For all we know you could have taken the hash from one of the mirror links which had been modified with scam emails etc, and then this extra step would just confirm that the mirror was not modified, but we dont know if the mirror was modified to begin with.

Im not saying anyone did modify the mirror links or anything like that, but in theory its possible so the extra step doesnt really make sense unless we can confirm the original hash somehow

 

[HopelessFight]

Unless the hash was under the original download link, then this doesnt really solve anything.

For all we know you could have taken the hash from one of the mirror links which had been modified with scam emails etc, and then this extra step would just confirm that the mirror was not modified, but we dont know if the mirror was modified to begin with.

Im not saying anyone did modify the mirror links or anything like that, but in theory its possible so the extra step doesnt really make sense unless we can confirm the original hash somehow

I have generated this hash on Rain's original upload.

 

[HopelessFight]

Since it appears there are fake versions of the PPH going around again, I'm bringing up this topic.

If you're looking for the PPH, please use the link you can find in this topic:

https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/suicide-resource-compilation.3/

The PPH has been uploaded by @RainAndSadness and is confirmed legit. Use the guide above to confirm it's legitimacy.

 

[evergreen]

Would someone please share the hash of a known good copy of the most recent Nov PPeH? It'd be nice to have this actually validated. I just downloaded Rain's link and got:

$ sha1sum PPeH_Nov_\(25\)_2021-3SFMAtwR.pdf 
20f81f4f8a4c1dbbf3de9c1e80c78952022c56d5  PPeH_Nov_(25)_2021-3SFMAtwR.pdf
$ md5sum PPeH_Nov_\(25\)_2021-3SFMAtwR.pdf 
fc1cb89fb17d5ea5c20ae9e217a84323  PPeH_Nov_(25)_2021-3SFMAtwR.pdf

 

[evergreen]

Would someone please share the hash of a known good copy of the most recent Nov PPeH? It'd be nice to have this actually validated. I just downloaded Rain's link and got:

$ sha1sum PPeH_Nov_\(25\)_2021-3SFMAtwR.pdf
20f81f4f8a4c1dbbf3de9c1e80c78952022c56d5  PPeH_Nov_(25)_2021-3SFMAtwR.pdf
$ md5sum PPeH_Nov_\(25\)_2021-3SFMAtwR.pdf
fc1cb89fb17d5ea5c20ae9e217a84323  PPeH_Nov_(25)_2021-3SFMAtwR.pdf

Don't mean to seem impatient, but I learned that I can tag people on this forum, and it would make sense to ask @RainAndSadness about the hash of their copy. Would you please share / update your post with these so we know what to trust?