At 7:56 AM -0500 4/6/12, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
 > Just curious, why two checkums?  Is one not sufficient?

Here we go again :-)


I'm not trying to pick a scab. Just found it curious when I was working on a portfile that both were recommended without offering any reasons why.

Hadn't thought about malicious alteration of the distfiles. I presumed it was to detect garbled transmission.

Craig
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