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OpenSSL sucks. Python would only have to bundle a reference implementation of the new hash algorithm(s), and unlike TLS suites they tend to just work.

BLAKE2 is important, since it removes the last objection to replacing MD5 - speed - that has made it hard for cryptography fans to convince MD5 users to upgrade.

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 7:13 AM M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> wrote:

On 27.05.2016 13:03, Donald Stufft wrote:
\>
\>> On May 27, 2016, at 6:54 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> wrote:
\>>
\>> IMO, relying on OpenSSL is a better strategy than providing
\>> (and maintaining) our own compatibility versions. Until OpenSSL
\>> has them, people can use Björn's package:
\>
\> Even now, hashlib doesn’t rely on OpenSSL if I recall, I mean it will
\> use it if OpenSSL is available but otherwise it has internal implementations
\> too.

I know, but still don't think that's a good idea. It makes
sense in case you don't want to carry around OpenSSL all the
time, but how often does that happen nowadays ?

BTW: If I recall correctly, those hash implementations predate
the deeper support for OpenSSL we now have in Python.

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