On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:11:46PM -0500, David Farning wrote:

3. Security.  We are going to have to consider that mirrors can be
hijacked.  ISOs will have to be shipped with md5 hashes.
MD5 is a very bad choice for authentication; it should be considered broken. SHA-1 is starting to "fail" as well (but currently fine); AFAIK SHA-256 should be safe choice mid-term. If you only want to guard against technical failures (corrupted download), MD5 is still fine of course.

CU Sascha

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