diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e4a7310..f2d4b03 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1647,11 +1647,10 @@ The development dependencies ship nowhere:
 
 ### Crypto policy
 
-Hashing, key derivation, signing and encryption go through `ethers` or
-`libsodium-wrappers-sumo`. No primitive is implemented in this repository. A new
-recovery phrase draws its random bytes from the browser's
-`crypto.getRandomValues()`. The build tooling, `build.js` and `script/lib/`,
-hashes files with Node's `crypto`; none of it ships in the extension.
+In the extension, hashing, key derivation, signing and encryption go through
+`ethers` or `libsodium-wrappers-sumo`. A new recovery phrase takes its random
+bytes from `ethers`. `build.js` and `script/lib/package.js` also hash files with
+`ethers`. No primitive is implemented in this repository.
 
 ### Content Security Policy
 
diff --git a/build.js b/build.js
index 0cf68e4..7c2194e 100644
--- a/build.js
+++ b/build.js
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 const fs = require("fs");
 const path = require("path");
-const crypto = require("crypto");
 const { execSync } = require("child_process");
 const esbuild = require("esbuild");
+const { sha256 } = require("ethers");
 const { resolveVersion } = require("./script/lib/version");
 const {
     BACKGROUND_ENTRY_PREFIX,
@@ -314,10 +314,8 @@ function copyIcons(distDir) {
 }
 
 function sha256File(absPath) {
-    return crypto
-        .createHash("sha256")
-        .update(fs.readFileSync(absPath))
-        .digest("hex");
+    // ethers prefixes the hex with 0x; the receipt holds bare hex.
+    return sha256(fs.readFileSync(absPath)).slice(2);
 }
 
 // Write the receipt for the files this build emitted. Deliberately records no
diff --git a/script/lib/package.js b/script/lib/package.js
index f745968..a0d132d 100644
--- a/script/lib/package.js
+++ b/script/lib/package.js
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
 
 "use strict";
 
-const crypto = require("crypto");
 const fs = require("fs");
 const path = require("path");
+const ethers = require("ethers");
 
 const { readZip, writeZip } = require("./zip");
 const { resolveVersion } = require("./version");
@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ function fail(message) {
     throw new Error(message);
 }
 
+// Lowercase hex without the 0x prefix ethers adds, as sha256sum prints it.
 function sha256(buf) {
-    return crypto.createHash("sha256").update(buf).digest("hex");
+    return ethers.sha256(buf).slice(2);
 }
 
 // Every regular file under dir, as archive-root-relative forward-slashed
@@ -291,4 +292,9 @@ if (require.main === module) {
     }
 }
 
-module.exports = { checkSelfContained, htmlReferences, manifestReferences };
+module.exports = {
+    checkSelfContained,
+    htmlReferences,
+    manifestReferences,
+    sha256,
+};
diff --git a/src/shared/wallet.js b/src/shared/wallet.js
index 674e10e..07a5d90 100644
--- a/src/shared/wallet.js
+++ b/src/shared/wallet.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Wallet operations: mnemonic generation, HD derivation, signing.
 // All crypto delegated to ethers.js.
 
-const { Mnemonic, HDNodeWallet, Wallet } = require("ethers");
+const { Mnemonic, HDNodeWallet, Wallet, randomBytes } = require("ethers");
 const { DEBUG, DEBUG_MNEMONIC, BIP44_ETH_PATH } = require("./constants");
 
 function generateMnemonic() {
@@ -10,10 +10,7 @@ function generateMnemonic() {
     // settings toggle drives, which would let a user of a release build turn
     // the hardcoded, publicly known test phrase back on for real wallets.
     if (DEBUG) return DEBUG_MNEMONIC;
-    const m = Mnemonic.fromEntropy(
-        globalThis.crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(16)),
-    );
-    return m.phrase;
+    return Mnemonic.fromEntropy(randomBytes(16)).phrase;
 }
 
 // Every extended key (xprv or xpub) entering the app goes through this.
diff --git a/tests/packaging.test.js b/tests/packaging.test.js
index b60a64a..fa7f100 100644
--- a/tests/packaging.test.js
+++ b/tests/packaging.test.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-// The release archives: the zip container, and the self-containment rule.
+// The release archives: the zip container, the self-containment rule, and the
+// digest format in release/SHA256SUMS.
 //
 // script/package produces one archive per browser and script/lib/package.js
 // decides what goes in it. The trap that rule exists for is real and specific:
@@ -11,12 +12,14 @@
 // So the packager resolves every reference in the manifest and in every HTML
 // document, and fails on any that leaves the extension root. These are the
 // cases for that, plus the archive format itself — new code, and the thing the
-// artifact is made of.
+// artifact is made of. One more case checks the digest format in
+// release/SHA256SUMS.
 
 const {
     checkSelfContained,
     htmlReferences,
     manifestReferences,
+    sha256,
 } = require("../script/lib/package");
 const { readZip, writeZip } = require("../script/lib/zip");
 
@@ -142,6 +145,14 @@ describe("archive self-containment", () => {
     });
 });
 
+// release/SHA256SUMS is checked with `sha256sum -c`, which needs the digest
+// as bare lowercase hex. The expected value is the FIPS 180-2 digest of "abc".
+test("sha256 prints the digest as sha256sum does", () => {
+    expect(sha256(Buffer.from("abc"))).toBe(
+        "ba7816bf8f01cfea414140de5dae2223b00361a396177a9cb410ff61f20015ad",
+    );
+});
+
 describe("the zip container", () => {
     const files = [
         { name: "manifest.json", data: Buffer.from('{"a":1}') },