SHA256 checksums

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-10-7 05:25 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> Following up on a previous thread conversation [1], I'd like to know if
> we're remotely interested in offering multi-length SHA256 checksums. This
> will allow us to have SHA256 checksums of a more desirable length while
> automatically switching between the bases.
> 
> Specifically, inside the portchecksum::checksum_main function we would
> check the length of the existing checksum to provide an optional argument
> to portchecksum::calc_256 to switch which the base of checksum it returns.
> 
> Apparently afb already submitted base32 encode/decode to pextlib.
> 
>  [1]
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2010-October/013070.html

I expressed my views in this post:
<http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2011-March/014108.html>

- Josh