I meant to exclude md5 and sha1, e.g. hash functions with known problems. SHA224 would be a weird choice but it wouldn't personally offend me otherwise. It would be fun to see how many wheel handlers support non-sha256 hash functions.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 9:56 PM Theallredman via Python-Dev < python-dev@python.org> wrote: > Thank you. I can't think of a compelling reason someone would want to > choose SHA224 over SHA256 in the context of wheel generation. It just that > the PEPs are usually pretty explicit and SHA224 seemed to be implicitly > excluded from RECORD files. And I'm considering the details of making a > pretty pedantic wheel generation PEP517 backend. > > Eldon > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Monday, March 29, 2021 2:16 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 17:40, Theallredman via Python-Dev > > python-dev@python.org wrote: > > > > > So going back to my actual question SHA224 is disallowed in record > files because it's bit length is less then 256? > > > > It doesn't look like it's ever been excluded. The only explicit > > exclusions are MD5 and SHA1 as you point out. Do you have a particular > > reason to want to use SHA224? Pretty much everyone is using SHA256, as > > far as I know. > > > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/NB6MLDDDJHRTRMOEWDFG5IYGZCP65K6V/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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