[Distutils] Proposal: drop md5 for sha256

[Donald Stufft]

Ideally the authors would sign them with GPG imo. Which is already 
possible.


On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > I would like to amend the spec. The hash column of RECORD should be
> > 
> > 'sha256:' + urlsafe_b64encode(hashlib.sha256(data))
> > 
> > instead of the hopelessly obsolete md5. With a secure hash function,
> > you can digitally sign RECORD.
> > 
> 
> 
> Signing packages does sound interesting, but what authority would sign them? The authors of the packages themselves?
> 
> > It would also make sense to allow RECORD to be omitted from RECORD.
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> Regards,
> Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda.
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