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Bug 891173

Summary: sys-apps/portage: replace all uses of MD5 hash
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component: CoreAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836954
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Description Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-01-17 05:04:34 UTC
Perhaps a tracker.

While there's no real "security" problem to be dealt with here, general insecurity/deprecation of MD5 may pose problems in the future.  In the end, BLAKE2 should be faster (and probably more portable, given we've dropped support for old Python versions) anyway, so…