[Slackbuilds-users] sha256sum instead of md5sum?

[Vincent Batts]

And yes this idea makes its rounds. It's been a couple years iirc.
On Apr 17, 2015 8:36 PM, "Vincent Batts" <vbatts at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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