[Python-Dev] hashlib - faster md5/sha, adds sha256/512 support

[Gregory P. Smith]

> A new core `hashlib` module will be included in Python 2.5, but will
> not be backported to older Python versions.  It includes new
> implementations for SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512.  The code and tests
> are already written, and can be gotten from Python's SVN trunk.

Another thing I intended to do is package hashlib as standalone to
make it available as an addon for python 2.3 and 2.4 users.  Obviously
I haven't gotten around to that yet but it remains on my TODO list.

-g