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> Neither SHA-1 nor SHA-256 are signing constructs, they are hash functions

Well that's why they said "stronger digest algorithm". As far as I understand, the repository index is hashed (now using SHA-256 instead of SHA-1) and this hash is then signed as usual, using whatever public key signature scheme they are using.



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