[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Doc/lib libsha.tex,1.10,1.11

Mon Sep 15 14:20:55 EDT 2003

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/lib
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv26033
Modified Files:
	libsha.tex 
Log Message:
SF bug #804113: Crypto terminology for crypto hash function
Noted that the SHA algorithm is really SHA-1.
(Contributed by Ronald Rivest.)
Index: libsha.tex
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/lib/libsha.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -C2 -d -r1.10 -r1.11
*** libsha.tex	2 Nov 2001 21:44:09 -0000	1.10
--- libsha.tex	15 Sep 2003 18:20:52 -0000	1.11
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*** 1,4 ****
 \section{\module{sha} ---
! SHA message digest algorithm}

 \declaremodule{builtin}{sha}
--- 1,4 ----
 \section{\module{sha} ---
! SHA-1 message digest algorithm}

 \declaremodule{builtin}{sha}
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*** 8,17 ****

 This module implements the interface to NIST's\index{NIST} secure hash 
! algorithm,\index{Secure Hash Algorithm} known as SHA. It is used in
 the same way as the \refmodule{md5} module:\ use \function{new()}
 to create an sha object, then feed this object with arbitrary strings
 using the \method{update()} method, and at any point you can ask it
 for the \dfn{digest} of the concatenation of the strings fed to it
! so far.\index{checksum!SHA} SHA digests are 160 bits instead of
 MD5's 128 bits.

--- 8,18 ----

 This module implements the interface to NIST's\index{NIST} secure hash 
! algorithm,\index{Secure Hash Algorithm} known as SHA-1. SHA-1 is an
! improved version of the original SHA hash algorithm. It is used in
 the same way as the \refmodule{md5} module:\ use \function{new()}
 to create an sha object, then feed this object with arbitrary strings
 using the \method{update()} method, and at any point you can ask it
 for the \dfn{digest} of the concatenation of the strings fed to it
! so far.\index{checksum!SHA} SHA-1 digests are 160 bits instead of
 MD5's 128 bits.