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

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Fri May 27 17:46:27 EDT 2016


On May 27, 2016, at 5:41 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

If we add this now, there should at least be an exit strategy to remove the code again, when OpenSSL ships with the same code, IMO.

I think it is a clear win to have the fallback implementations in cases where people either don’t have OpenSSL or don’t have a new enough OpenSSL for those implementations. Not having the fallback just makes it more difficult for people to rely on those hash functions.

— Donald Stufft



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