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The Hash You Pick Matters: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and What Each Is Still Good For
You download a 2 GB ISO from a mirror you have never heard of, the page shows a long checksum, and you skip it. Six months later, that same image is implicated in a supply-chain incident and your team spends a weekend rebuilding machines. Checksums exist precisely to catch this. But the first…