New submission from Daniel Stutzbach <dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com>:

At the bottom of the documentation for hashlib, there's a link to
http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/hash.html

which the hashlib documentation describes as "Hash Collision FAQ with 
information on which algorithms have known issues and what that means regarding 
their use."

However, the page at that link is identical to http://www.cryptography.com/

which is just the homepage of some company that happens to deal with 
cryptography.  If they do in fact host a Hash Collision FAQ, I couldn't find 
it. :-(

Googling for "Hash Collision FAQ" (with quotes) mostly turns up references to 
the Python documentation, so I'm guessing the intended document no longer 
exists.

The following wikipedia link might be an OK substitute, although it makes for 
pretty dense reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Cryptographic_hash_algorithms

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assignee: d...@python
components: Documentation
messages: 106259
nosy: d...@python, stutzbach
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: The external link to a "Hash Collision FAQ" points to some company's 
homepage

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