Closed cboettig closed 3 years ago
Based on our discussion, sounds great to me @cboettig. PR welcome, or we'll try to add this on our next release.
SHA-256 is now the default for sysmeta/objects, updated in commits 9303c806d3d2c48ab9cc9ef11c02993fac6ab1f5 and ceef2d1d387d1d050c7d58be3d3c92455027f6f5
Creating a new
DataObject
generates an S4 object with asysmeta
field that uses SHA-1 as the checksum. SHA-256 might be a more collision-safe default these days.Relatedly, it might be nice to let the user select the
checksumAlgorithm
, e.g.