Issue 804113: Crypto terminology for crypto hash function (original) (raw)
Issue804113
Created on 2003-09-11 01:07 by ronrivest, last changed 2022-04-10 16:11 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg18131 - (view) | Author: Ronald L. Rivest (ronrivest) | Date: 2003-09-11 01:07 |
| On web page: http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel////lib/module- sha.html the documentation should be improved to make it clear that the hash function implemented here is really what is known as "SHA-1" and not just "SHA". NIST originally proposed a "SHA" hash function. NSA found a problem with SHA, and proposed a small fix to it; the revised hash function is typically called "SHA-1". The version implemented is indeed "SHA-1" and not "SHA" (I tested it). The documentation should make this clear, and might also include "SHA1" somewhere as a synonym so searches will find this common spelling variant too. Renaming the module as "sha1" would also be nice... | ||
| msg18132 - (view) | Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) *  |
Date: 2003-09-15 18:25 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=80475 Fixed the docs. Renaming the module would be a bigger step that causes difficulty for people upgrading to the next Python version, challenges for people distributing code expected to work under multiple versions, and would outdate existing Python publications. Passing on that step because it gets too little benefit for the cost. See Doc/lib/libsha.tex 1.10.26.1 and 1.11. Thanks for the report. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-10 16:11:05 | admin | set | github: 39212 |
| 2003-09-11 01:07:54 | ronrivest | create |