<p dir="ltr">Md5 is not great, but provides moderate warm fuzzies. Something like that switch should be done in a way that allows for a slow migration, rather than a hard switch. In not opposed seeing stronger checksum allowed, but it will need some noodling.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 17, 2015 7:28 PM, "Ryan P.C. McQuen" <<a href="mailto:ryan.q@linux.com">ryan.q@linux.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello fellow Slackers,<br>
<br>
Has this idea ever been bounced around?<br>
<br>
Switch from md5sum to sha256sum for *.info files? Obviously it would<br>
be a pretty big undertaking, and maybe not really worth it ... what<br>
are the thoughts of the great minds here?<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Ryan<br>
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