[clamav-users] Signatures in md5sum not in sha256sum

[Alain Zidouemba]

We are shipping sha256 signatures now. See contents of daily.hsb. We
are no longer shipping new hdb (md5) signatures.

-Alain

> On Sep 8, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Al Varnell <alvarnell at mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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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