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		atto on June 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's Dangerous, a Python cryptographic signing mod... I forked the project and updated the hashing algorithm: https://github.com/andrewconner/itsdangerous

the_mitsuhiko on June 10, 2012 [–]

> 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.

tptacek on June 10, 2012 | [–]

It should default to a SHA-2 hash and you should deprecate the branch that defaulted to SHA-1.

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