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Forward port PEP 466 What's New in 2.7 updates

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Nick Coghlan 2014-08-23 14:47:47 +10:00
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@ -2547,13 +2547,23 @@ with the first of those changes appearing in the Python 2.7.7 release.
:pep:`466` related features added in Python 2.7.7:
* :func:`hmac.compare_digest` was added to make a timing attack resistant
comparison operation broadly available to Python 2 applications
(backported by Alex Gaynor in :issue:`21306`)
* :func:`hmac.compare_digest` was backported from Python 3 to make a timing
attack resistant comparison operation broadly available to Python 2
applications (backported by Alex Gaynor in :issue:`21306`)
* the version of OpenSSL linked with the prebuilt Windows installers
published on python.org was updated to 1.0.1g (contributed by
Zachary Ware in :issue:`21462`)
* upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1g for the prebuilt Windows installers published
on python.org (contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`21462`)
:pep:`466` related features added in Python 2.7.8:
* :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` was backported from Python 3 to make a hashing
algorithm suitable for secure password storage broadly available to Python
2 applications (backported by Alex Gaynor in :issue:`21304`)
* upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1h for the prebuilt Windows installers published
on python.org (contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`21671` for
CVE-2014-0224)
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