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adrianlopezroche / fdupes

FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
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sha256 instead of md5 #61

Closed jaromil closed 8 years ago

jaromil commented 8 years ago

Hello and thanks for fdupes,

I am concerned that MD5 can be weak under some circumstances and weak to attacks (one may forge a file colliding md5 to force the deletion of something from an archive). For this reason I'm interested in enhancing fdupes with a SHA256 detection mechanism in place of MD5, which may be provided by a standalone implementation or by the OpenSSL shared library one.

Do you have any intention to merge such a pull request?

jaromil commented 8 years ago

I clearly see your point now. Pardon my ignorance on the algorithm and thanks for your explanation.