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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Core and builtins at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo) -- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings +- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings - Speed up some Unicode operations. @@ -293,7 +293,16 @@ Library ------- - Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and - SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. + SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the + historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications. + In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html> + Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python: + + "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as + expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05), + is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but + that research should continue, and other alternatives may + arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK." - Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and @@ -458,13 +467,13 @@ Library disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can be exploited in various ways. -- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec +- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec flags on the HTTP listening socket. - Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large. Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read(). -- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of +- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler. - Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again. |