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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-01 17:07:15 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-01 17:07:15 -0400
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parentb7f4801801aa8b8e20ea82261b193a73b7fec799 (diff)
New backends: SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224
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@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ can use different backends for different files.
allows modifications of files to be tracked. Its need to generate checksums
can make it slower for large files.
for use.
+* `SHA512`, `SHA384`, `SHA256`, `SHA224` -- Like SHA1, but larger
+ checksums. Mostly useful for the very paranoid, or anyone who is
+ researching checksum collisions and wants to annex their colliding data. ;)
* `URL` -- This backend downloads the file's content from an external URL.
The `annex.backends` git-config setting can be used to list the backends