[Python-Dev] New hash algorithms: SHA3, SHAKE, BLAKE2, truncated SHA512 (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Fri May 27 07:03:46 EDT 2016


On May 27, 2016, at 6:54 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at 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.

— Donald Stufft



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