--On Tuesday, June 14, 2005 12:12 AM +0530 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote: > If we are talking about risks, note that sha1sum is potentially *less* > riskier than md5sum. Fedora is anything but conservative though The algorithm itself is less risky. Changing the release process to use it is more risky. Fedora users get to test the process change.