Provides the SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 hash algorithms in addition to platform optimized versions of MD5 and SHA1. If OpenSSL is present all of its hash algorithms are provided.
This is a stand alone packaging of the hashlib library included with Python 2.5 so that it can be used on older versions of Python (tested on 2.3 and 2.4).
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Secure hash and message digest algorithm library
We found that hashlib demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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