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> the SHA256 hashes would be unambiguously not SHA1 hashes, even when abbreviated

Not if your hash happens to not include an 'h'.




Not sure I follow. If the SHA1 hashes use [0-9a-f], and the SHA256 hashes use [h-zA-Z] (or something along those lines), there is never any overlap in characters.


The current SHA-1 representation uses hexadecimal, so only contains 0-9 and a-f.




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