Ondřej Surý writes ("Re: new hashes (SHA512, SHA3) in apt metadata and .changes 
files?"):
> SHA512 doesn't bring any advantage over SHA256.

AIUI SHA-512 is faster than SHA-256 on many processors, and not
usually slower on the others.  If the hashes are too long, they can be
truncated.

Ian.


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