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by craftkiller 390 days ago
> These hashes are computed using SHA-256

Not so fast! The hash story is actually much more complex than that, as this recent article showed: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/nix-by-hand/

Regardless, the hash function is irrelevant to end-users, I just thought it was interesting that they cooked up such a convoluted scheme.