[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Doc/lib libsha.tex, 1.10, 1.10.26.1

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/lib
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv25763

Modified Files:
      Tag: release23-maint
	libsha.tex 
Log Message:
SF bug #804113:  Crypto terminology for crypto hash function

Noted that the SHA algorithm is really SHA-1.
(Contributed by Ronald Rivest.)



Index: libsha.tex
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/lib/libsha.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.10.26.1
diff -C2 -d -r1.10 -r1.10.26.1
*** libsha.tex	2 Nov 2001 21:44:09 -0000	1.10
--- libsha.tex	15 Sep 2003 18:20:13 -0000	1.10.26.1
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*** 1,4 ****
  \section{\module{sha} ---
!          SHA message digest algorithm}
  
  \declaremodule{builtin}{sha}
--- 1,4 ----
  \section{\module{sha} ---
!          SHA-1 message digest algorithm}
  
  \declaremodule{builtin}{sha}
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*** 8,17 ****
  
  This module implements the interface to NIST's\index{NIST} secure hash 
! algorithm,\index{Secure Hash Algorithm} known as SHA.  It is used in
  the same way as the \refmodule{md5} module:\ use \function{new()}
  to create an sha object, then feed this object with arbitrary strings
  using the \method{update()} method, and at any point you can ask it
  for the \dfn{digest} of the concatenation of the strings fed to it
! so far.\index{checksum!SHA}  SHA digests are 160 bits instead of
  MD5's 128 bits.
  
--- 8,18 ----
  
  This module implements the interface to NIST's\index{NIST} secure hash 
! algorithm,\index{Secure Hash Algorithm} known as SHA-1.  SHA-1 is an
! improved version of the original SHA hash algorithm.  It is used in
  the same way as the \refmodule{md5} module:\ use \function{new()}
  to create an sha object, then feed this object with arbitrary strings
  using the \method{update()} method, and at any point you can ask it
  for the \dfn{digest} of the concatenation of the strings fed to it
! so far.\index{checksum!SHA}  SHA-1 digests are 160 bits instead of
  MD5's 128 bits.