[issue9216] FIPS support for hashlib

Christian Heimes report at bugs.python.org
Fri Sep 13 05:28:25 EDT 2019


Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> added the comment:

> FYI the multiprocessing module uses hmac.new(authkey, message, 'md5').digest(). I don't think that using MD5 even for HMAC is allowed in FIPS mode.

MD5 us especially not allowed in FIPS mode.

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