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Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress



On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:48:27AM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote:
> What about a debhelper script that receives an URL (or set of mirror
> URLs) and a SHA1 and does the download and check?

Please use something stronger than SHA-1.  SHA-1 has some weaknesses and
something like SHA-256 or SHA-512 should be used in new applications.

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