[issue8783] The external link to a "Hash Collision FAQ" points to some company's homepage

New submission from Daniel Stutzbach <daniel@stutzbachenterprises.com>: At the bottom of the documentation for hashlib, there's a link to http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/hash.html which the hashlib documentation describes as "Hash Collision FAQ with information on which algorithms have known issues and what that means regarding their use." However, the page at that link is identical to http://www.cryptography.com/ which is just the homepage of some company that happens to deal with cryptography. If they do in fact host a Hash Collision FAQ, I couldn't find it. :-( Googling for "Hash Collision FAQ" (with quotes) mostly turns up references to the Python documentation, so I'm guessing the intended document no longer exists. The following wikipedia link might be an OK substitute, although it makes for pretty dense reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Cryptographic_hash_... ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 106259 nosy: docs@python, stutzbach priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: The external link to a "Hash Collision FAQ" points to some company's homepage _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8783> _______________________________________

Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> added the comment: The FAQ can still be found in the internet archive, http://web.archive.org/web/20070928160638/http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/... but of course this is not a good link, especially because it's not updated. I've added the link to the wikipedia article, as you suggested, in r81404. It should be a good starting point for further research. ---------- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8783> _______________________________________

Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> added the comment: The FAQ can still be found in the internet archive, http://web.archive.org/web/20070928160638/http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/... but of course this is not a good link, especially because it's not updated. I've added the link to the wikipedia article, as you suggested, in r81404. It should be a good starting point for further research. ---------- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8783> _______________________________________
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