Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

The hashlib doc starts with "Warning: Some algorithms have known hash collision 
weaknesses, see the FAQ at the end" (the "FAQ at the end" is a link to a 
Wikipedia article). The sentence "Included are the FIPS secure hash algorithms 
SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512 (defined in FIPS 180-2) as well as 
RSA’s MD5 algorithm" also conveys the idea that MD5 is not part of the "secure" 
bunch. The only addition I can think of would be to replace md5 with sha1 in 
the small example snippet at the beginning.

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