Re: [Tutor] My Python project - an update

2007-03-31 Thread Dave S
Very valid points, I was not aware that MD5 had been cracked :) Dave ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] My Python project - an update

2007-03-28 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Out of curiousity, why md5? Hasn't it been cracked already? Would sha1 or 2sum be a better alternative? I'm a newbie to this so it's just a question. -Rohan On 3/23/07, Dave S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to say thank you. Over the last few months I have been asking a lot of dumb

Re: [Tutor] My Python project - an update

2007-03-28 Thread Michael Sparks
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 10:50, Rohan Deshpande wrote: Out of curiousity, why md5?  Hasn't it been cracked already?  Would sha1 or 2sum be a better alternative?  I'm a newbie to this so it's just a question. People have indeed shown vulnerabilities in MD5 for this sort of purpose.

[Tutor] My Python project - an update

2007-03-23 Thread Dave S
Just to say thank you. Over the last few months I have been asking a lot of dumb questions about python (and qt on the qt mailing list) ... anyhow I finished my pet project, all 5500 lines of it. I previously explained what it was but to recap ... I developed a QT Python app that scans both