diff --git a/docs/settings.rst b/docs/settings.rst
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+++ b/docs/settings.rst
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ value defined on the cache backend). Defaults to ``'rl:'``.
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 An optional functionion to overide the default hashing algorithm used to derive the cache
-key. Defaults to ``'hashlib.sha512'``.
+key. Defaults to ``'hashlib.sha256'``.
 
 ``RATELIMIT_ENABLE``
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