Let's avoid using md5 as checksum

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Fri Feb 15 19:36:12 PST 2008


js wrote:
> As you know, MD5 has serious flaws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5)
> So recently I don't use it and even  remove it when I found it in the
> checksum part of portfile.
> I thought dropping use of md5 in portfile would be nice.
> 
> Any thought?

I don't think these flaws are strong enough to discourage use of MD5 as 
a hashsum for file verification yet.

Rainer


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