MD6 in Python

[Christian Heimes]

Terry Reedy schrieb:
> Christian Heimes wrote:
>> mikle3 at 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 license.
>>>
>>> Is there a reason not to add it to the standard lib, following the
>>> hashlib "protocol"?
>>
>> 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 way a new piece of code will land in
the 2.7 release.

Christian