[New-bugs-announce] [issue15468] Edit docs to hide hashlib.md5()

[Daniel Holth]

New submission from Daniel Holth <dholth at fastmail.fm>:

md5() has been obsolete since 1996. It has no place as the first item in hashlib's list of "guaranteed to be available" hashes, and it doesn't work when Python has been compiled to be FIPS-compliant.

The documentation should be edited to make md5's availability as non-obvious as possible.

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messages: 166577
nosy: dholth
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Edit docs to hide hashlib.md5()
versions: Python 3.3

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