Re: [Gnu-arch-users] SHA1 sums for checksums file

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:26:41 +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:52, Colin Walters wrote:
> > I was fairly verbose in the patch-1 patch log.  In case [INCOMPATIBLE
> > CHANGE] isn't clear enough - yes, you will have to re-checksum and
> > re-sign your archives.
> 
> It is not unheard of to provide multiple hashes for one 'file', making it 
> even 
> more secure.
> I'm thinking of allowing hash.md5 and hash.sha1 for example.
> 
> Would certainly be more resilient to more changes like these in the future.

The abovementioned patchlog says, that the checksum file includes both
md5 and sha1 checksums, and the major incompatibility is change in it's
format.

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