[python-committers] Re: Publish better than md5sums of Python builds?

On 16/03/2021 14.59, Julien Palard via python-committers wrote:

Hi,

Someone on Mastodon had me noticed that:

=> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-392/

gives the md5 sum of Python builds, and that we should probably do better.

What about sha256? Has it been discussed already?

Hi Julien,

could you please explain your use case? Which problem are you trying to solve? How would a sha256 checksum help you solve that problem?

Christian