Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't know how you intend to make `digestmod` mandatory given the current function signature.
> Applications should slowly migrate away from HMAC-MD5 and use a more > modern algorithm like HMAC-SHA256. Applications don't always choose their cipher. MD5 is needed for compatibility with existing protocols such as CRAM-MD5. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17276> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com