On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:51:35PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > Thomas Lotze wrote: > > >After some further offline discussion, I'd like to suggest using MD5 as > >the default algorithm, though. > > Warnings against using md5 are mainly about cryptographic > security, aren't they? For just detecting accidental > corruption it should still be good enough.
Yes, that's my understanding too.
(My only point for raising this was to consider a future-proof syntax for
specifying the checksums, so that we're not locked in the past when the
world moves on.)
Marius Gedminas
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