wsusscn2.cab -- invalid file signature


the available offline windows update cab file, wsusscn2.cab, appears have borked digital signature.  sigcheck says "not cryptographic message or cryptographic message not formatted correctly."  when microsoft going fix this?  file appears last modified on 27 october, going on week , half (a nice, healthy length of fail).

download path:
1. go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=74689, redirects to:
2. download.windowsupdate.com/microsoftupdate/v6/wsusscan/wsusscn2.cab

here's http response headers @ time of download:

http/1.1 200 ok
cache-control: max-age=0
connection: close
date: sun, 06 nov 2016 16:04:21 gmt
pragma: no-cache
content-length: 193261086
content-type: application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed
expires: sun, 06 nov 2016 16:04:22 gmt
last-modified: thu, 27 oct 2016 21:19:00 gmt
accept-ranges: bytes
age: 1
etag: w/"f09b56bc9730d21:0"
server: footprint distributor v4.11
msregion: n. america
x-ccc: us
x-cid: 3
x-powered-by: asp.net

and here's sigcheck output, minus banner:

wsusscn2.cab:
        verified:       not cryptographic message or cryptographic message not formatted correctly.
        file date:      9:19 pm 10/27/2016
        signing date:   9:19 pm 10/27/2016
        publisher:      n/a
        company:        n/a
        description:    n/a
        product:        n/a
        prod version:   n/a
        file version:   n/a
        machinetype:    n/a
        md5:    ff825cc45737c67aea3257b32230ce29
        sha1:   8b654a110939b57a8ac2d1e7dde52f3cf35142d9
        pesha1: n/a
        pe256:  n/a
        sha256: 8e50ce2809ee50675e2cb36d6a23f25a24fb4c4b6eb2e8d0704c0204debeadfc
        imp:    n/a

ah, yes -- curse of cloud.  different cloud, different file.  if you're lucky, file, if you're lucky.

half hour ago "here," got different response yesterday these response headers:

http/1.1 200 ok
cache-control: max-age=0
connection: close
date: mon, 07 nov 2016 13:14:45 gmt
pragma: no-cache
content-length: 193261086
content-type: application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed
last-modified: thu, 27 oct 2016 11:07:23 gmt
accept-ranges: bytes
etag: "8027ea4a4230d21:0"
server: microsoft-iis/8.5
x-powered-by: asp.net
x-cid: 7
x-ccc: us
x-msedge-ref: ref a: e02093532c4d4dd5837af131303b51b5 ref b: 65d66af2ca9950c89f25bd01e3313948 ref c: mon nov  7 05:14:46 2016 pst

twenty minutes later, retry , borked file "footprint distributor v4.11:"

http/1.1 200 ok
cache-control: max-age=0
connection: close
date: mon, 07 nov 2016 13:34:31 gmt
pragma: no-cache
content-length: 193261086
content-type: application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed
expires: mon, 07 nov 2016 13:34:31 gmt
last-modified: thu, 27 oct 2016 21:19:00 gmt
accept-ranges: bytes
age: 0
etag: w/"f09b56bc9730d21:0"
server: footprint distributor v4.11
msregion: n. america
x-ccc: us
x-cid: 3
x-powered-by: asp.net

unfortunately me, when pull http lever on download slot machine borked file.



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