[Python-Dev] New hash algorithms: SHA3, SHAKE, BLAKE2, truncated SHA512

[Guido van Rossum]

But you could choose which implementation to use at compile time based
on the autoconf output, right?

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> On 2016-05-27 09:41, Chris Barker wrote:
>> I'm probably showing my ignorance here, but couldn't we swap in the
>> OpenSSL implementation when that becomes available?
>
> No, not any time soon. As soon as we guarantee SHA3 support we have to
> keep our own implementation for a couple of additional releases. We can
> drop our own SHA3 code as soon as all supported OpenSSL versions have SHA3.
>
> For example when OpenSSL 1.2.0 is going to have SHA3 support, we must
> wait until OpenSSL 1.1 and 1.0.2 are no longer supported by OpenSSL.
>
> Christian
>
>
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