MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread mikle3
As every one related to security probably knows, Rivest (and his friends) have a new hashing algorithm which is supposed to have none of the weaknesses of MD5 (and as a side benefit - not too many rainbow tables yet). His code if publicly available under the MIT license. Is there a reason not to a

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread mikle3
On Jun 5, 11:46 pm, Christian Heimes wrote: > mik...@gmail.com schrieb: > > > As every one related to security probably knows, Rivest (and his > > friends) have a new hashing algorithm which is supposed to have none > > of the weaknesses of MD5 (and as a side benefit - not too many rainbow > > tab

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread mikle3
On Jun 6, 5:16 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:47:21 +0200, Christian Heimes wrote: > > Terry Reedy wrote: > >> A wrapper could go on PyPI now so it can be tested in use *before* > >> going in the stdlib.  No commit or pre-review needed either. > > > Here you gohttp://pypi.pyth