Re: [SLUG] md5 sum check

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2006 - 10:28:43 EDT


> This is to be expected, since they are different programs and all.

Yeah - SHA1 is the "new" MD5, since MD5 was broken recentlyish. Of
course, it would still be pretty nontrivial to create a malicious iso
that had a matching md5sum with a good iso, but we may as well use
SHA1 since we have it...

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