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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: SHA256 checksum in ports
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:12:22PM +0300, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Is anyone knows what was the reason to add SHA256 checksum check
> in ports? Why MD5 was insufficient?

Enough progress has been made towards breaking MD5 that it is no
longer considered safe to rely on for these purposes.

Kris

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