Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-06 Thread Aahz
In article , Terry Reedy wrote: >Aahz wrote: >> >> Um, what? You mean 3.1rc1, right? Nevertheless, my understanding is >> that 2.7 is mostly restricted to code landed in 3.1, so your second >> statement is roughly correct. > >My understanding is that 2.7 will come out about the same time as 3.2

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread mikle3
On Jun 6, 5:16 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:47:21 +0200, Christian Heimes wrote: > > Terry Reedy wrote: > >> A wrapper could go on PyPI now so it can be tested in use *before* > >> going in the stdlib.  No commit or pre-review needed either. > > > Here you gohttp://pypi.pyth

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:47:21 +0200, Christian Heimes wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: >> A wrapper could go on PyPI now so it can be tested in use *before* >> going in the stdlib. No commit or pre-review needed either. > > Here you go http://pypi.python.org/pypi/md6 > > It's still a bit rough, total

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Aahz wrote: Um, what? You mean 3.1rc1, right? Nevertheless, my understanding is that 2.7 is mostly restricted to code landed in 3.1, so your second statement is roughly correct. My understanding is that 2.7 will come out about the same time as 3.2 and will contain 3.2 backports also. New f

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Christian Heimes
Aahz wrote: > Um, what? You mean 3.1rc1, right? Nevertheless, my understanding is > that 2.7 is mostly restricted to code landed in 3.1, so your second > statement is roughly correct. Oh, d...! Of course you are right, Aahz. As far as I can remember 2.7 will only contain backports of 3.1 feature

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Scott David Daniels
Christian Heimes wrote: ... 2.7rc1 is already out. There is no way a new piece of code will land in the 2.7 release. Christian 3.1rc1 is out, but 2.7 is not even in alpha. See pep 373 for the 2.7 schedule; 3.1's schedule is on pep 375. --Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org -- http://ma

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Aahz
In article , Christian Heimes wrote: >Terry Reedy schrieb: >> Christian Heimes wrote: >>> >>> Somebody has to write and add a md6 wrapper to the standard library. >>> It's going to take some time, at least 18 months until Python 2.8 and >> >> 2.7 is next > >2.7rc1 is already out. There is no wa

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Christian Heimes
Terry Reedy wrote: > A wrapper could go on PyPI now so it can be tested in use *before* going > in the stdlib. No commit or pre-review needed either. Here you go http://pypi.python.org/pypi/md6 It's still a bit rough, totally untested but it should work. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Christian Heimes
Terry Reedy schrieb: > Christian Heimes wrote: >> mik...@gmail.com schrieb: >>> As every one related to security probably knows, Rivest (and his >>> friends) have a new hashing algorithm which is supposed to have none >>> of the weaknesses of MD5 (and as a side benefit - not too many rainbow >>> ta

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-06-05 16:09, mik...@gmail.com wrote: It's not that I need it, I can sure use it. I can also write a wrapper myself. My secret agenda is too see if other people want it and write it as an addition to the standard lib, thus wetting my feet in Python Core Development wi

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Christian Heimes wrote: mik...@gmail.com schrieb: As every one related to security probably knows, Rivest (and his friends) have a new hashing algorithm which is supposed to have none of the weaknesses of MD5 (and as a side benefit - not too many rainbow tables yet). His code if publicly availab

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-06-05 16:09, mik...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 5, 11:46 pm, Christian Heimes wrote: mik...@gmail.com schrieb: As every one related to security probably knows, Rivest (and his friends) have a new hashing algorithm which is supposed to have none of the weaknesses of MD5 (and as a side bene

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread mikle3
On Jun 5, 11:46 pm, Christian Heimes wrote: > mik...@gmail.com schrieb: > > > As every one related to security probably knows, Rivest (and his > > friends) have a new hashing algorithm which is supposed to have none > > of the weaknesses of MD5 (and as a side benefit - not too many rainbow > > tab

Re: MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread Christian Heimes
mik...@gmail.com schrieb: > As every one related to security probably knows, Rivest (and his > friends) have a new hashing algorithm which is supposed to have none > of the weaknesses of MD5 (and as a side benefit - not too many rainbow > tables yet). His code if publicly available under the MIT li

MD6 in Python

2009-06-05 Thread mikle3
As every one related to security probably knows, Rivest (and his friends) have a new hashing algorithm which is supposed to have none of the weaknesses of MD5 (and as a side benefit - not too many rainbow tables yet). His code if publicly available under the MIT license. Is there a reason not to a