recent discussion regarding 'checksums'

[grarpamp]

> If

Ad nauseum... to each shall entertain their own use case scenarios.
The overall point is that MD5 is not suitable for data integrity
beyond it's known [and unknown] weaknesses. I've no faith
in an algorithm with such freely generatable collisions to not
have other collisions/rot with any of the other 5M inodes turning
over at this one particular site each week. Everything's a trade
off, features move that decision to the users. Enjoy :)