||<tablebgcolor="#f1f1ed" tablewidth="35%" tablestyle="margin:0pt 0pt 1em 1em;float:right;font-size:0.9em; "style="padding:0.5em;"><<TableOfContents>> ||

= Rationale =

The download manager allows the client to provide the hash and the algorithm used to calculate it. Those two values are passed as a string and the download manager is not case sensitive, that is Md5 and md5 are the same.
= Valid values =

The following are the valid algorithms used by the download manager to calculate the hash of a download.

 * Md5
 * Sha1
 * Sha224
 * Sha256
 * Sha384
 * Sha512