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Author fazl
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Date 2019-03-16.13:18:34
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Python is widely used and should use more trustworthy checksums than MD5.

Even the successor to MD5 (SHA-1) was considered insecure in 2017. From https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/23/bang-sha-1-collides-at-38762cf7f55934b34d179ae6a4c80cadccbb7f0a/ :

"For many years [...] MD5 was widely used [...] but it is now forbidden in the cryptographic world because [...] MD5 collisions are easy to generate on purpose, so the algorithm can no longer be trusted."
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