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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by atto on Sunday June 10, 2012 @10:29AM (#4091129)
I forked the project and updated the hashing algorithm: https://github.com/andrewconner/itsdangerous
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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by the_mitsuhiko on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:02AM (#4091219)
> I forked the project and updated the hashing algorithm: https://github.com/andrewconner/itsdangerous

That is not necessary, I adjusted the API so that you can easily subclass it and change the digestmod.

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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by tptacek on Sunday June 10, 2012 @02:34PM (#4091770)
It should default to a SHA-2 hash and you should deprecate the branch that defaulted to SHA-1.
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