On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Simon Slavin <slavins at bigfraud.org> wrote:

>
> On 2 Apr 2016, at 11:35am, Pavel Volkov <pavelivolkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You may add sha256 checksum for files in the download page?
>
> SHA1 is so easy to crack now it might make sense to replace the SHA1
> checksums with SHA256.  Does anyone have a good reason why SHA1 is still
> needed ?
>

FWIW:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2

"Although (as of 2015) no example of a SHA-1 collision has been published
yet..."


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