On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Thierry
<sage-googlesu...@lma.metelu.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 08:07:19PM +0200, Luca De Feo wrote:
>>     |X| Yes, we should fully support OpenSSL now, and clarify the
>> licensing issue.
>>
>> > the way our
>> > "package manager" works allows to install an optional package without
>> > having to rely on openssl (no https), we only rely on the computation of
>> > sha1
>>
>> There you go for something crippled!  https://shattered.io/
>
> sha256 is also supported by python-hashlib compiled without openssl
> support, so we could/should easily move to using it in Sage "package
> manager" (build/sage_bootstrap/tarball.py).

+1 to switching to and/or adding support for SHA-256 hashes.  As
Thierry noted that are several SHA-256 implementations for Python, in
fact, that don't rely in any way on OpenSSL or have problematic
licenses.

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