[Python-Dev] SHA-256 module
Armin Rigo
arigo at tunes.org
Tue Jun 29 11:10:22 EDT 2004
Hello,
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:24:17AM -0400, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> There are a bunch of other variants with different bit sizes such as
> 512, 384, and 224 bits. The only one likely to matter is SHA-512, so
> adding sha256 might mean that down the road we need to add a sha512
> module, too, but that seems unlikely.
We may consider whether adding, over time, a bunch of modules named shaXXX
doesn't mean we should start thinking about a way to group all these
algorithms into a single module.
Armin
More information about the Python-Dev
mailing list