[Patches] [ python-Patches-704676 ] add direct access to MD5 compression function to md5 module

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Patches item #704676, was opened at 2003-03-16 17:02
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Category: Modules
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Reuben Sumner (rasumner)
>Assigned to: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Summary: add direct access to MD5 compression function to md5 module

Initial Comment:
Access to the MD5 compression function allows doing
things like calculating NMAC (see
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/papers/hmac.html). 
This patch gives such access.  If accepted I am happy
to do the same for SHA-1.  I didn't update the doc
strings very well, and I didn't update the
documentation source at all.

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>Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Date: 2006-12-22 13:09

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Thanks for your contribution, but this seems quite specialized; NMAC
doesn't appear to be widely used, perhaps because such API additions are
required to implement it.  The patch would also need to be updated for the
introduction of hashlib in Python 2.5.


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