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Gravatar URLs are md5 instead of sha256 #2856

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Gravatar recommends sha256 instead of md5

It seems the rationale is that it's possible to reverse-engineer the e-mail address from the md5 hash.

Automattic/wp-calypso#87886

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I think FA is using md5 instead of sha256.

At some point, gravatar started recommending sha256, as their docs say to use it:

https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/hash/

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