MD5 is broken, and the Apache foundation has explicitly asked us to move
away from it (for release signing at the very least). More importantly, if
we ever support caching/sharing of pipeline artifacts, this becomes a
security risk.


On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 12:46 AM Henning Rohde <[email protected]>
wrote:

> MD5 is a checksum used by GCS, Azure storage and others. It's convenient
> that they match. The checksum is not used for security decisions. Is there
> a JIRA describing the rationale for changing it?
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