Terry Reedy schrieb: > 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 >>> tables yet). His code if publicly available under the MIT license. >>> >>> Is there a reason not to add it to the standard lib, following the >>> hashlib "protocol"? >> >> Somebody has to write and add a md6 wrapper to the standard library. >> It's going to take some time, at least 18 months until Python 2.8 and > > 2.7 is next >
2.7rc1 is already out. There is no way a new piece of code will land in the 2.7 release. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
