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Re: Why do we check the base checksum so often?

From: Hyrum K Wright <hyrum.wright_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 12:51:09 -0600

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
> We could change that for Ev2 but how are you going to change Subversion
> 1.0-1.7?
>
> Can I borrow your time-machine? ;-)
>
> Md5 is not unique enough to pick a base.

Is SHA-1 sufficient? Should we be using SHA-256 to identify content in Ev2?

-Hyrum 

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