On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 08:38:38PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 18:29:30 +0200, Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> said:
>
>    >> In each case I expect the values to be hex strings, effectively the same
>    >> as the first column of the output from sha1sum, sha256sum, sha512sum,
>    >> etc... from coreutils.
>
>    > No, don't.  Use base64 like everyone else.
>Can you explain why we should use base64? On cdimages.d.o we also use
>the plain output of the shaXXXsums commands.

+1. It's what we have all over the place.

Ditto for having sha256 and sha512.

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