SHA256 checksum in ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:12:22PM +0300, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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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