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Luit on June 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing mod...

My point exactly! Armin (the maker/maintainer of the module) will probably consider doing this somewhere in the future.

the_mitsuhiko on June 10, 2012 [–]

I just pushed out a release that makes it possible to override the digest in a subclass easier.

zokier on June 10, 2012 | [–]

While overrideability is good, wouldn't it be better to also be 'secure by default'? I'd imagine that SHA-2 would be more sensible default for most users.

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