It absolutely needs to be a strong cryptographic hash, because you want to protect against both deliberate tampering and accidental modification. Any other fun

It absolutely needs to be a strong cryptographic hash, because you want to protect against both deliberate tampering and accidental modification. Any other function, whether non-cryptographic, too short, broken or having known weaknesses, while perhaps suitable to detect accidental corruption, will not protect against the former. For example, SHA-384, or SHA-3 are great choices.