https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7618

--- Comment #16 from RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> ---

There are some cases were hash files could be used for authentication, for
example, someone might download one via HTTPS to verify a tarball from a shared
insecure cache. Clearly those rules apply to the rule tarball on this page:

  http://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.cgi

There are no SHA-1 or MD5 hash files there for the rule tarball, it's already
compliant.  

The URLs used by sa-update are part of a private interface that isn't exposed
to the public (unless they dig around in the internals), and where the security
of the hashes is irrelevant.   To apply the same rules here is stretching the
letter of the law and ignoring its spirit IMO.

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