SHA256 checksums

[Rainer Müller]

Hello Anders,

On 2010-10-25 10:31 , Anders F Björklund wrote:
> I think the main objection to sha256 checksums was
> that they were "too long", even though one sha256
> is shorter than two as in both of sha1 and rmd160...
> 
> But one way to make it "shorter" is to use base32
> rather than base16 for encoding the digest string ?
> (the end bits are of course the same, either way)

While this might be a good idea for our Portfiles, I am not aware that
anybody else provides sha256 checksums in other encodings. That would
make it harder to compare checksums or to use them directly from upstream.

Rainer