where to download md5.py?
Jorgen Grahn
jgrahn-nntq at algonet.se
Wed Nov 9 15:44:41 EST 2005
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:59:28 +0100, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> "Bell, Kevin" wrote:
>
>> I've been looking around, but haven't found a place to download the
>> md5.py module. I need it to run the dupinator.py
>
> md5 is a standard Python module (written in C). it's been in Python since
> the early ages, so if you don't have it, your install is most likely broken (per-
> haps intentionally, based on this: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199 )
Intentionally breaking md5 in a Python installation that would be really,
really stupid -- the md5 algorithm, is useful even if it's not
cryptographically secure.
(I understand that you don't /advocate/ ripping out module md5, of course).
/Jorgen
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