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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2016-06-12 01:02:13 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2016-06-12 01:02:13 (GMT)
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Clarify that md5 is in the algorithms_guaranteed list despite what
some upstream vendors may do to their odd "FIPS compliant" builds. issue15468.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/hashlib.rst4
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diff --git a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst
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@@ -104,7 +104,9 @@ Hashlib provides the following constant attributes:
.. data:: algorithms_guaranteed
A set containing the names of the hash algorithms guaranteed to be supported
- by this module on all platforms.
+ by this module on all platforms. Note that 'md5' is in this list despite
+ some upstream vendors offering an odd "FIPS compliant" Python build that
+ excludes it.
.. versionadded:: 3.2