Am 16 Dec 2006 11:17:19 -0800 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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. >
Python 2.5 comes with SHA-256 in the hashlib module. So you could install Python 2.5 instead of the PyCrypto module. Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
