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by hleszek 2300 days ago
It is kind of ridiculous to still use md5sum to check software for integrity.
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Normally I would give people the benefit of doubt and say “it doesn’t matter for most practical cases”, but given the purpose of HiddenVM you really would expect them to do better than md5. They’re expected to be on the forefront of these technologies and should set the example, even for something as innocuous as zip file integrity checks.
Thanks, we'll look into it.
And now fixed, moved to SHA512.
What's wrong with MD5?
It's too easy to generate hash collisions.