Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment: > Therefore the expected digest changes each time.
Exactly. Timing attacks (which aren't really new :-) depend on a constant digest to successively determine the characters composing the digest. Here, that won't work, because the digest changes every time. ---------- nosy: +neologix _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14532> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com