diff --git a/po/POTFILES.in b/po/POTFILES.in
index b5f5bbff1..de70201a0 100644
--- a/po/POTFILES.in
+++ b/po/POTFILES.in
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ src/link.c
 src/ln.c
 src/logname.c
 src/ls.c
-src/md5sum.c
+src/digest.c
 src/mkdir.c
 src/mkfifo.c
 src/mknod.c
diff --git a/scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg b/scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg
index 03f8c5c31..9c80406d9 100755
--- a/scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg
+++ b/scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ my @valid = qw(
     sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate tsort
     tty uname unexpand uniq unlink uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes
 
-    all copy gnulib tests maint doc build scripts sha\*sum
+    all copy gnulib tests maint doc build scripts sha\*sum digest
     );
 my $v_or = join '|', @valid;
 my $valid_regex = qr/^(?:$v_or)$/;
diff --git a/src/md5sum.c b/src/digest.c
similarity index 100%
rename from src/md5sum.c
rename to src/digest.c
diff --git a/src/local.mk b/src/local.mk
index 8aba9842f..bb5b722f2 100644
--- a/src/local.mk
+++ b/src/local.mk
@@ -397,19 +397,20 @@ src_arch_SOURCES = src/uname.c src/uname-arch.c
 src_cut_SOURCES = src/cut.c src/set-fields.c
 src_numfmt_SOURCES = src/numfmt.c src/set-fields.c
 
+src_md5sum_SOURCES = src/digest.c
 src_md5sum_CPPFLAGS = -DHASH_ALGO_MD5=1 $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
-src_sha1sum_SOURCES = src/md5sum.c
+src_sha1sum_SOURCES = src/digest.c
 src_sha1sum_CPPFLAGS = -DHASH_ALGO_SHA1=1 $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
-src_sha224sum_SOURCES = src/md5sum.c
+src_sha224sum_SOURCES = src/digest.c
 src_sha224sum_CPPFLAGS = -DHASH_ALGO_SHA224=1 $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
-src_sha256sum_SOURCES = src/md5sum.c
+src_sha256sum_SOURCES = src/digest.c
 src_sha256sum_CPPFLAGS = -DHASH_ALGO_SHA256=1 $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
-src_sha384sum_SOURCES = src/md5sum.c
+src_sha384sum_SOURCES = src/digest.c
 src_sha384sum_CPPFLAGS = -DHASH_ALGO_SHA384=1 $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
-src_sha512sum_SOURCES = src/md5sum.c
+src_sha512sum_SOURCES = src/digest.c
 src_sha512sum_CPPFLAGS = -DHASH_ALGO_SHA512=1 $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
 src_b2sum_CPPFLAGS = -DHASH_ALGO_BLAKE2=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
-src_b2sum_SOURCES = src/md5sum.c \
+src_b2sum_SOURCES = src/digest.c \
 		    src/blake2/blake2.h src/blake2/blake2-impl.h \
 		    src/blake2/blake2b-ref.c \
 		    src/blake2/b2sum.c src/blake2/b2sum.h