[Python-Dev] New hash algorithms: SHA3, SHAKE, BLAKE2, truncated SHA512

[Donald Stufft]

> On May 28, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> 
> No, not any time soon. As soon as we guarantee SHA3 support we have to
> keep our own implementation for a couple of additional releases. We can
> drop our own SHA3 code as soon as all supported OpenSSL versions have SHA3.


It still will be needed for as long as it’s possible to build Python without
OpenSSL.

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Donald Stufft