[clamav-users] Signatures in md5sum not in sha256sum

[Al Varnell]

I'm struggling to understand how that would improve the DB? It's not a security issue and it would seemingly involve a ton of work to run all those samples again just to get a larger number which would require additional time to download and space to store the DB as well as in RAM.

-Al-

On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 04:12 AM, Vijayakumar U wrote:
> Dear Team,
> 
> Do we have any plans to maintain/update the signature DB with sha256sum?
> 
> Is there any specific reason to maintain the signatures in md5sum format?
> 
> Please clarify.
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