[SciPy-Dev] scipy.weave uses md5 -- can't run in FIPS mode

Pauli Virtanen pav at iki.fi
Tue Oct 1 11:36:00 EDT 2013


01.10.2013 18:07, Tomas Tomecek kirjoitti:
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> since weave uses md5, it can't run in FIPS mode.
> 
> Have you been asked about this in a past? Would it be possible to use
> some NIST approved hash function?

The hash is only used for caching compilation results AFAIK, so it could
be substituted with SHA1 or something else. Patches accepted, I think.

-- 
Pauli Virtanen




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