sha1 and rmd160
Craig Treleaven
ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Fri Apr 6 06:24:43 PDT 2012
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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