Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #63857, comment 13


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Nov 8, 2021, 3:35:04 PM (2 years ago)
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cculianu (Calin Culianu)
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  • Ticket #63857, comment 13

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    33So practically speaking enabling it will be the shortest route to not having Python erroneously believe it has the algorithm (see my comment above where it's in `hashlib.algorithms_available`)... only to have it fail when you try to use it!
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    5 Not that this is a strong argument in and of itself -- but like I said in my previous comment: I do think not re-enabling this hasher will lead to a lot of unhappiness: there is guaranteed to be a ton of code out there that depends on it.  It's always been there -- since OpenSSL 1.0.  Having it disappear is guaranteed breakage for tons of software out there....
     5Not that this is a strong argument in and of itself -- but like I said in my previous comment: I do think not re-enabling this hasher will lead to a lot of unhappiness: there is guaranteed to be a ton of code out there that depends on it.  It's always been there -- since OpenSSL 0.9.  Having it disappear is guaranteed breakage for tons of software out there....
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    77I humbly ask again: Please reconsider this position.