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Re:It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing module by Luit on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:31AM (#4091305)
I agree I'm a bit inconsistent, but the library is well written, and exchanging the hashing function is a trivial task. That's not really quite "writing your own". I just mean to discourage people who aren't 100% sure they know what they're doing.

I strongly agree with Armin: HMAC-SHA1 (note, the combo, it's not just the latter) is still good security for most applications you'd consider this library for.

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