[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Deprecate md5sums, show sha256sums as an example-by-default.

[Mike Swanson]

On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 22:04 +0000, Kieran Colford wrote:
> <https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/26336/sha512-faster-than-s
> ha256>
> points out that using sha512 is faster than sha256 so I'd rather not
> waste
> my time calculating hashes without a good reason

I wasn't aware of this, thanks :)