[New-bugs-announce] [issue16059] Serialize MD5 computation-state and resume later

[Ye Yuan]

New submission from Ye Yuan:

Serialize/deserialize md5 context. Pseudocode:

import md5
# Start hash generation
m = md5.new()
m.update("Content")

# Serialize m
serialized_m = serialize(m)

# In another function/machine, deserialize m
# and continue hash generation
m2 = deserialize(serialized_m)
m2.update("More content")
m2.digest() 

There are C++ lib but no Python one.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 171367
nosy: Ye.Yuan
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Serialize MD5 computation-state and resume later
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7

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