[Checkins] SVN: Zope/branches/gsoc-python-2.5/utilities/mkzopeinstance.py sha -> hashlib

Andreas Jung lists at zopyx.com
Thu Oct 16 00:47:17 EDT 2008


On 15.10.2008 23:19 Uhr, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> To my knowledge, sha.new() and hashlib.sha256() aren't equivalent. A
> quick test on the interpeter prompt confirms that, though perhaps I'm
> missing something... Is there a particular reason why you chose
> hashlib.sha256() and not hashlib.sha1() which seems to be the equivalent
> to sha.new()?

I had in mind that sha256() and sha1() were in some way compatible but 
you are obviously right. Independent of this issue we might switch to 
SHA256 since SHA1 is already considered weak and broken.

Andreas
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