[issue24318] Better documentaiton of profile-opt (and release builds in general?)

2018-04-19 Thread Joachim Wagner
Joachim Wagner added the comment: The readme in 3.6.5 has a section on PGO but the sentence "If ran, ``make profile-opt`` will do several steps." can be misunderstood that one has to run this command instead of "make" after "configure --enable-optimizations". Fur

[issue1385] hmac module violates RFC for some hash functions, e.g. sha512

2007-11-06 Thread Joachim Wagner
Joachim Wagner added the comment: Thanks. Looks great! Also thanks for the hint to rfc 4321. This answers the questions how my application can identify whether the right python version is running. JJ __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.p

[issue1385] hmac module violates RFC for some hash functions, e.g. sha512

2007-11-04 Thread Joachim Wagner
New submission from Joachim Wagner: (First time submitting a patch to this system.) The hmac module uses a fixed blocksize of 64 bytes. This is fine for many hash functions like md5, sha1 and sha256, but not for sha512 or in the general case. The RFC referenced in the python documentation