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Re: hashlib suddenly broken

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Date 2014-09-19 03:18 +1000
Subject Re: hashlib suddenly broken
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> but I expect that's probably not where the problem lies. My *wild guess* is
> that your system updated SSL, and removed some underlying SHA-1 library
> needed by hashlib. SHA-1 is pretty old, and there is now a known attack on
> it, so some over-zealous security update may have removed it.

Or, more likely, the actual code for sha1 is imported from somewhere
else, and *that* module is what's been shadowed. What happens if you
change directory to something with absolutely no .py files in it, then
start interactive Python and try importing hashlib? Maybe you have an
openssl.py or something.

ChrisA

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hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 10:27 -0600
  Re: hashlib suddenly broken John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-09-18 16:47 +0000
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 13:18 -0600
      Re: hashlib suddenly broken John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-09-18 20:21 +0000
        Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 15:30 -0600
  Re: hashlib suddenly broken Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 03:07 +1000
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 03:18 +1000
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 13:22 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 13:23 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 13:46 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-09-18 13:44 -0700
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2014-09-18 22:49 +0200
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 15:38 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 15:39 -0600
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2014-09-19 00:17 +0200
    Re: hashlib suddenly broken Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-09-18 15:19 -0700
      Re: hashlib suddenly broken Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 15:00 +1000
        Re: hashlib suddenly broken Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 09:09 -0600

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