The usedforsecurity keyword only argument added to the hash constructors is useful for FIPS builds and similar restrictive environment with non-technical requirements that legacy algorithms be forbidden by their implementations without being explicitly annotated as not being used for any security related purposes. Linux distros with FIPS support benefit from this being standard rather than making up their own way(s) to do it.
Contributed and Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes christian@python.org
* help(hashlib) didn't work because of incorrect module name in blake2b and
blake2s classes.
* Constructors blake2*(), sha3_*(), shake_*() and keccak_*() incorrectly
accepted keyword argument "string" for binary data, but documented as
accepting the "data" keyword argument. Now this parameter is positional-only.
* Keyword-only parameters in blake2b() and blake2s() were not documented as
keyword-only.
* Default value for some parameters of blake2b() and blake2s() was None,
which is not acceptable value.
* The length argument for shake_*.digest() was wrapped out to 32 bits.
* The argument for shake_128.digest() and shake_128.hexdigest() was not
positional-only as intended.
* TypeError messages for incorrect arguments in all constructors sha3_*(),
shake_*() and keccak_*() incorrectly referred to sha3_224.
Also made the following enhancements:
* More accurately specified input and result types for strings, bytes and
bytes-like objects.
* Unified positional parameter names for update() and constructors.
* Improved formatting.
kB (*kilo* byte) unit means 1000 bytes, whereas KiB ("kibibyte")
means 1024 bytes. KB was misused: replace kB or KB with KiB when
appropriate.
Same change for MB and GB which become MiB and GiB.
Change the output of Tools/iobench/iobench.py.
Round also the size of the documentation from 5.5 MB to 5 MiB.
The `blake2b` function does not take the `data` keyword argument.
The hex digest returned by sign was a string, whereas compare_digest expects bytes-like objects.
Typo fix: compare_digesty -> compare_digest
document that md5 may be missing in the rare case someone is using a
"FIPS compliant" build. I've only ever heard of Redhat creating one
of those - CPython itself offers no such build mode out of the box.
Christian Heimes
Cheryl Sabella
Ville Skyttä
Serhiy Storchaka
Andrés Delfino
Sanyam Khurana
Victor Stinner
Dmitry Chestnykh
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Gregory P. Smith
Terry Jan Reedy
Martin Panter
Benjamin Peterson
Larry Hastings
Martin v. Löwis
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Christian Heimes
Georg Brandl
Jesus Cea
Jason R. Coombs
Ezio Melotti
Raymond Hettinger
Senthil Kumaran