On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:10:52 -0600
Bil Corry <b...@corry.biz> wrote:

> Justin Dolske wrote on 1/4/2009 9:48 PM: 
> > The update check, which happens over SSL, includes a hash in the
> > reply. When the update is then downloaded (without SSL), the data
> > is checked against the hash from the update check. If the data was
> > tampered with, the hash won't match and the bad update won't be
> > applied.
> 
> Which hash algorithm is used?

SHA-1, though I have a patch submitted (bug 419906) to change it to use
SHA-256 instead, but I need to rework my patch to address some
pre-review comments.

~reed

-- 
Reed Loden <r...@reedloden.com>
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