In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > ... and it's to NSA's credit that SHA-1 held up for as long as it did. >> But they have no convincing proposal for a successor. That means the gap >> between the classified and non-classified state of the art has shrunk >> down to insignificance. > > The successor is SHA-2.
According to this <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1>, the family of algorithms collectively described as "SHA-2" is by no means a definitive successor to SHA-1. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list