[Slackbuilds-users] sha256sum instead of md5sum?

Vincent Batts vbatts at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 00:36:44 UTC 2015


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.
On Apr 17, 2015 7:28 PM, "Ryan P.C. McQuen" <ryan.q at linux.com> wrote:

> Hello fellow Slackers,
>
> Has this idea ever been bounced around?
>
> Switch from md5sum to sha256sum for *.info files? Obviously it would
> be a pretty big undertaking, and maybe not really worth it ... what
> are the thoughts of the great minds here?
>
> Best,
> Ryan
>
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