Operating system: Win XP Vsn of Python: 2.4 Situation is this: Required to calcluate a message digest. The process for calcluating the digest must use an SHA-256 algorithm.
Questions: 1) Is it correct that the sha module comes with python 2.4? 2) Is it correct that the sha module that ships with python 2.4 does NOT have the SHA-256 capability as part of the module? 3) It looks like PyCrypto is a package that, among other things, permits one to calculate a message digest using an SHA-256 algorithm...is that correct? 4) It looks like there are a couple couple possibilities available for the download...either download the source code and run the setup which (I'm assuming) compiles the various extension modules, or download the pycrypto-2.0.1.win32-py2.4.zip which extracts out to a .exe; when one runs the just-extracted .exe, it installs the stuff on one's workstation. I'm leaning toward the second option because it seems like most of the work has been done for me. A quick search on this site didn't turn up anything that suggested there were problems with running the installer. So, my question is this: are you aware of any problems running the installer? 5) Besides PyCrypto, are there any other Python packages that permit one to calculate a message digest using an SHA-256 algorithm? Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
