[Python-Dev] SHA-256 module

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jun 29 14:40:21 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 02:25, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 04:10:22PM +0100, Armin Rigo wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > It would be possible to change the signature of sha.new() to
> > > sha.new('string', bits=256) and have all the variants in one module,
> > > if we want SHA-256 but not a separate module.
> > 
> > That seems like a very nice solution to me.
> 
> +1

BTW, would it raise an exception (ValueError?) for bit sizes it doesn't
know about?

-Barry

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